on patience

thoughts from Ann Voskamp

 

 

Patient people dare to gratefully accept people where they are. Grateful for who they are now, appreciative of works of art not yet finished, but still deeply loved.

Patient people dare to receive the present always as a present — grace.

Patient people dare to live only in the present. Because they know that is where God is.

 

In every moment I want to escape, some hidden gift hides, if I will wait patiently and dare to live to fully into that moment.

Now is not an emergency to rip through, but a moment to embrace with gratitude.

Love is what stabilizes chaos.

— love is patient first. Because it first is grateful for what is.