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Daily Question, March 14

Who needs my patience today? Can I offer it graciously?

  • reality

    My housekeeper probably will and I will readily give it. Thanx for all you All do; have a good day 🙂 reality

  • Skeeter

    A client of mine who wrote a very harsh e-mail to my daughter who works for me. She was trying to reassure him about world markets, COVID-19 will not kill all of us, etc. I need to understand that he is just afraid and needs reassurance. He is in pain and I will be in touch with him today. Empathy and kindness are in order.

  • Tahsin Tabassum

    I have been patient all the time because I am slow to lose temper and only if it doesn’t get under my nerves. I don’t think anyone needs to be offered, because no one cares.

  • Dusty Su
    The Coronavirus is teaching me patience for myself and others. Recently, one of the most senior government officials in Thailand came out several times vehemently against Europeans as the blame for the spread of the virus. He announced that we should all be kicked out of the country, because we are dirty, filthy, disease-carrying people who never wash. I really battled with this. After much soul searching, I decided to respond and not react. To not be anger and hatred to his sanctioned hatre...

    The Coronavirus is teaching me patience for myself and others.

    Recently, one of the most senior government officials in Thailand came out several times vehemently against Europeans as the blame for the spread of the virus. He announced that we should all be kicked out of the country, because we are dirty, filthy, disease-carrying people who never wash.

    I really battled with this. After much soul searching, I decided to respond and not react. To not be anger and hatred to his sanctioned hatred and anger. It was not easy as a large part of me wanted to react nastily.

    Yesterday evening, I deliberately walked around the ministry of Public Health Gardens. I challenged myself to leave love as the answer against every racial, fearfully charged boundary. I prayed for the minister to find understanding, love, and kindness. I prayed that humanity would work together to help and heal each other. I prayed for anyone past, present, and future who had suffered under bigotry (perp and victim) to heal and to move beyond it and connect in a loving, whole space. I reminded myself that I did not come to this country to be loved but to be love. I reminded myself to always try to respond, not react. I reminded myself of my privilege and those who don’t have such things. I reminded myself to let my love be bigger than any sorrow.

    My walk almost complete, I passed through the grounds of the largest mental hospital in Thailand which adjoins the Ministry. Passing by a huge building, I heard loud yells. “I love you, I love you, I LOVE YOU!” I looked up to the highest floors to see four men’s hands sticking through the bars waving at me. They quickly engaged every little bit of English they knew. They wanted recognition and human connection. We waved, laughed, and shouted out terms of endearment. It was fabulous.

    I stepped away teary eyed. Love had broken through boundaries and transformed a place of suffering for a few moments.

    My evening exercise and walk into loving patience probably served and humbled no one as much as it did me.

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    • Debra

      Dusty Su: On this rainy Southern California night, when I was approaching succumbing to feeling sorry for myself, I read your message. What a spiritual unveiling your writing has revealed to me. What a pure expression of love. Thank you isn’t enough…..Debra

      • Dusty Su

        Thank you Debra, it was a too much of a hard won victory not to share. Also, I wanted to use this post as a reminder to self. It’s easy to lose this place of love.
        Blessings dear heart xx

  • GCharlotte

    I may offer patience to myself today and do so gratefully.

  • TeriB

    The world needs my patients today and I WILL offer it graciously! Hearing about all the hoarding of grocery and health items as well as how mankind is treating each other has me disappointed. I remember my Grandmother and Grandfather telling me stories of the depression and how they would share how very little they had with neighbors and even strangers who had nothing. I will go into today with the utmost patients, be kind to those in my path.

  • Mica

    Thank you, Katrina – I need my patience today, too, to successfully edit my webpage at the monthly Coding Club. The instructors will be pateint with me. [I’m lucky to have SUCH small problems today, when almost everything has been cancelled, and so many are suffering from the covid-19 virus in so many ways]

  • Katrina

    I so resonate with Malog, the first to post. I need my patience today. So much to consider, so much to decide, so much I can’t do. Ahhh – be patient with myself and be present with God. Let God guard my heart and speak to me in God’s still small voice. And I may discover new things for and about myself that will in turn benefit others.

  • Michele

    Most likely myself – I have to go food shopping and have no idea what to expect when I get there ….

    • Pilgrim

      Around here, long lines and empty (or emptying) shelves, Michele. I hope your experience is better.

  • Trish

    I intend to extend patience to my academy classmates today. We are having class through Zoom all weekend due to the C-virus. We bumbled our way through it last night and we are gearing up for a long day today. We love one another so patience will be easy to offer. ??

  • Ed Schulte

    This quote is far more gracious than any words I can organize to address the question “Who needs my patients”. So I will offer it to the part of my personality which is all too easily distracted by the thing that “don’t really matter at all”.

    “If you keep watch over your heart, and listen for the Voice of God and learn of Him, in one short hour you can learn more from Him than you could learn from Man in a thousand years.
    Johannes Tauler (ca. 1300-1361)

  • devy
    Patience with the current crisis, how people are reacting with panic and irrational decisions.. being patient by accepting how they feel, the fact that the unknown triggers panic and that the overbuying and hoarding is giving them a feeling of being in control. Having patience as well with my decision to avoid large public places and going to my gym to work out…something that I enjoy and helps me cope physically and mentally. I try to look at positive side of the situation, how this shows our ...

    Patience with the current crisis, how people are reacting with panic and irrational decisions.. being patient by accepting how they feel, the fact that the unknown triggers panic and that the overbuying and hoarding is giving them a feeling of being in control. Having patience as well with my decision to avoid large public places and going to my gym to work out…something that I enjoy and helps me cope physically and mentally. I try to look at positive side of the situation, how this shows our interconnection with each other and the good thing which people are doing to be helpful. Learning to adapt to the situation and creating my mini gym at home.Being grateful for what I have gives patience and hope. Just think how hours I’ll have now to practice learning the guitar!

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  • Kevin

    I know who needs my patience today, so this is a good reminder! Thank you.

  • Christina

    Oh God, patience…I struggle so with it.
    I have learned the lessons of the world well and am fast, fast, fast–think fast, act fast, etc., and for that I am grateful.
    However, I haven’t learned the gifts of the spirit as well: patience, “long-suffering” (if I can say that.)
    I need patience with snafus, technical stuff, and my current Corona fears. Also with a male coworker who appears to be ignoring my request.

  • sunnypatti

    Fearful customers (I work at Whole Foods, and all of the grocery business is crazy right now). On-edge coworkers also need my patience. I always try to set an example for them, though, that everything is good. That we are all going to be fine no matter what the situation is. I carry that with me thru this current state of coronavirus.

    • Mica

      Hang in there, sunnypatti, and thanks for your part in keeping a busy market running!

    • Christina

      Bless you and all grocery workers at this crazy, fearful time! Customers, too!

  • Malag

    It is frequently me. If I can be patient with myself, slowing things down, accepting the foibles and apparent limitations, I can be more gracious in engaging with others. Patience breeds patience.

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