Finding Needed Patience
Flower Moonset over Denver
Do or do not. There is no try. - Yoda
Well, hello and welcome to May and May the Fourth be with you!
As my fingers hit the keyboard this morning the art of patience is on my mind as I look at the 10 day weather forecast. Boy of boy it really is not at all to my liking. Here in my part of Colorado we are looking at snow and two mornings down in the 20’s!!
These are the kind of temperatures that make a gardener worry about their plants that have already popped their head out of the ground and wonder if new ones can ever get planted.
Last week I got a bit impatient and tell the sad tale in this week’s video which I am calling The Good, Bad and Ugly. Hope is the only thing that saved me through the turmoil I end up sharing.
Patience no doubt is something that comes with time and experience, giving us hope. Tish Harrison Warren shares in her book, Liturgy of the Ordinary: Sacred Practices in Everyday Life, “The singular mark of patience is not endurance or fortitude but hope. To be impatient…is to live without hope.”
Every time I plant a seed in the ground in with it goes hope that it will become the plant that I desire it to be. Sometimes it works out and sometimes, for whatever reason, it does not.
Think about the people, places and events of your life where you have patience even when daily life with them does not turn out as planned or projected. What keeps you going? What happens when you run out of patience? What do you stand to lose by just giving up?
We can easily give up and run in the opposite direction or decide that it is worth not giving up completely. Perhaps choosing doing again in a much different way. Learning what needs to shift to bring a different outcome because quitting could also be painful.
Life can be easy, and life can be hard. The choice in how we take in the bad is understanding what will make the difference in a creating a good outcome moving forward.
Heading into this day, week, and month I will keep the wisdom of Yoda in my heart as we have hope moving towards warmer days. I hope you do as well in whatever challenges are in front of you.
Plant often and with Love!
Cheri
Cheri Ruskus
Author and Founder of Grow You Girl
