Thursday, May 22, 2014

The Kindness of Waiting

"Patience is not simply the ability to wait -- it's how we behave while we're waiting."
― Joyce Meyer

Sometimes we just can't wait.  It seems that most of the time, we are rushing, trying to make it from one place to another...

A woman I know found herself with a couple of hours -- to herself!  She decided to cross a few errands off her list, one of which was framing a drawing that one of her children had made.  When she arrived at the framing store, the owner was attending to an older man in a wheelchair who was having several pieces framed.

The owner looked up and said, "I am so sorry.  We've just started.  It's going to take a while."

"No problem," the woman I know I said.  Because -- for once -- it really wasn't.  She sat down and waited about 20 minutes.  And she didn't mind. 

Later, the woman remembered how she used to define patience for her children when they were small:  "Patience is waiting with a smile."

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