Patience

"Patience is not sitting and waiting, it is foreseeing. It is looking at the thorn and seeing the rose, looking at the night and seeing the day. Lovers are patient and know that the moon needs time to become full..." ~ Rumi 

Three times in as many days I've sat down to write, and patience was the always the theme that came to me. I've felt like I've been endlessly patient these last few months, and that my patience has been tested time and again, and that I was growing very weary of the waiting. But I just couldn't get what I was feeling into words, and it seemed like I had it all wrong on the page and in my heart. Because I wasn't feeling patient at all, even if I was acting like it. I was struggling with the pull of wanting to be somewhere other than where I am, to be further down the road, to be past some of the big hurdles looming and on into whatever comes next. Then this morning I saw this Rumi quote and it turned me right around. It reminded me there is beauty and love in every moment, and I need to take them as they come instead of longing for the next. Rushing or forcing things to happen is futile, resisting what is keeps peace at bay. Everything is as it should be right now in this moment, and everything will unfold as it is meant to. All I need to do is love what is.