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patience

Why Get Patient?

What is Patience?

Patience is a virtue I did not desire much, it had never been that appealing to me. I was more into “seizing the moment” rather than “waiting” for things to happen.

There is wisdom however in doing things at the right time. If not, we would only spoil what could have been the most wonderful thing, like a butterfly waiting in her cocoon, or a punchline in a joke that can make our stomachs ache.

Patience indeed, has its own value. It is not a passivity, but an activity, an activity that requires utmost discipline and strength! It necessitates confidence and hope that things will turn out the way they were intended to be at just the right moment. It is being able to contain the power within, focus it and release it at the perfect moment it needs to be unleashed.

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Quotes from Mother Teresa

“The poor do not need our compassion or our pity; they need our help.”

 

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God

God does not rush

God does not rush

I’ve learned that the Lord does not desire to rush me. Rather, He wants me to grow in His time, and so I must be patient.

Before He sends me forth, I know that there are some things He wants to deal with first. Though I thought I was prepared, He showed me I wasn’t ready yet. He made me come face to face with my weaknesses and I knew that it will take time.

I trust in Him however, that He will finish the good work He had begun!

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Life

So many things can’t be explained

So many things can’t be explained

We all seek for answers, we all want to make a box and fit everything neatly inside. Yet despite all the advances in science, so many things still can’t be explained.

For instance, do you believe in love? In courage? In beauty? How should science explain all these?

Is love nothing more than the outward appearance of things? The fine arrangement of one’s molecules? And if it is not, if you tell me that love, as well as beauty consists not only of the external, how can you define it? How can you believe in that which you cannot explain?

Is courage the strength of one’s muscles or of one’s heart? And what is a heart if not more than an organ pumping blood into one’s fragile body? What makes a man courageous and what makes another man a coward? Is it courage to die for the sake of another? Why should a living organism defy nature’s law of self-preservation anyway? Why should one die for another creature which would only be tomorrow’s dust or another one’s fertilizer?

To what extent must we risk our lives? To what extent should we love? And what is love anyways?

Can you grasp it? Can you see it? Can you measure what it can do? Can you explain the reaction of the atoms of a person falling in love? Why must we love anyway? And why is there such a thing as love? Is it a power or a sickness? Is a person who loves still rational or merely crazy?

There are so many things we cannot explain, so many things our minds cannot grasp. Yet is this the most important thing?

To the person who has really known love, there are no more questions, only declarations of the salvation he has found.

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melancholic

Being Melancholic

Being a Melancholic Person

Being a melancholic person is no easy matter. For one thing, you easily get depressed. You also have the tendency to be overcritical of yourself and of other people. But being able to understand yourself is one of the first things that can help you in overcoming your difficulties.

When I learned I belong to the melancholic type of temperament, I was able to understand myself more. I’ve learned to accept myself and avoid being more depressed whenever I make mistakes and fall below my own expectations. I’ve realized I’m not so different after all with other people having the same difficulties. I’ve also discovered many of the gifts given me, gifts that came along with all the weaknesses I saw.

Now I know that God created each of us for a reason. And though I have the tendency to be down, I mean, really down and all, I also have the capacity to experience inexplicable heights of joy, a high that many people can never even imagine.

It is true that being a melancholic makes me sensitive and easily hurt, but it also helps me to be more understanding of other people. At times, its like I can almost enter into other people’s heart and experience their joys, their sorrows, whatever it is that other people find so hard to grasp.

Melancholics also have the capacity to undergo great sacrifices, and they are loyal and dependable friends. They are also creative and have sharp analytical skills.

For all the difficulties that come with being melancholics, there are also priceless gifts one can’t help but be grateful about. It’s up to us now how we should use the gifts given us, and how we should learn to focus on the brighter side of life no matter how dark some seasons seem to be.

Melancholics have a heavy cross to bear, but they also have a lofty heaven to look forward to. Must anyone fear love for all the sorrows it can render us? Must anyone fear life? When one is able to truly grasp the happiness that comes along with life, with love, one is able to embrace anything, even the heaviest of crosses in order to enter a heaven whose joy overpowers all pain and all sacrifices.