PATIENCE IS GENIUS!

It is Patience Week in James Mellon's Mental Muscle Boot Camp and I am honing my patience skills during a week of what seems like endless waiting for my blossoms to bloom. Unfortunately, I am not immune to pulling up the roots either. How many times have I checked my email today to see if "something" is there? I've lost count.

At the same time, I have claimed that I am a Spiritual Being Living in a Spiritual Universe. I am learning that I can walk through this world knowing I am in it but not of it.

So how does this all fit together? I must trust what seem like delays. Is it true, as Michael Beckwith says...that delays are just here so I can acquire additional skills needed for future adventures?

So, I ask "What do I need to know?" My spiritual mentor, James Mellon says those words are a directive not a question. I've been asking it a lot lately and perhaps not expecting an answer. Hush, Rita! Listen!

Breathe...Here it comes..."Enjoy life in the now!" (Oh, not that again, says my will power). However, resist as I might the Now, it is obvious it is the major important life skill I need to still embrace. The Now! Perhaps when I live that I won't need to be patient anymore because there will be nothing to be patient about.

While I watched my husband get ready for work today, I thought back on all the wonders of our life together. I thought of all the moments like this one that would be gone in an instant and how precious they are.

Life is to be relished moment-to-moment. Me, sitting here right now is a moment never to be lived again. James has said, "Patience is Knowing."

Knowing is aligning myself with Divine Will that only knows perfect time. It is time to enjoy the journey and get into the flow. Our success is always assured in the Present.

Eighteenth-century French naturalist, Georges-Louis Leclerc Buffon (1707-1788), said, "The ability to accept delay. Or disappointment. To smile at setbacks and respond with a pleasant, understanding spirit. To remain calm while others around are uneasy. This is Godly patience. Never think that God's delays are God's denials. Hold on; Hold fast; Hold out. Patience is genius."

I am a genius and so are you! Namaste!

love and light,
Rita