The Gift of Pain

Pain is a gift we too often curse and, in so doing, miss it's true value.

In disease and illness we can discover the blessing of our good health. In loss we can remember the blessing of relationships and seek to love again. In turmoil we can learn the blessing of the peace we had and that will come again.

In pain we learn to appreciate our blessings and to value what and whom we have. In this we find pain is the prelude to peace and the preamble to joy.

On Patience

Patience is the adhesive that binds relationships. It allows you to be still. 

When one cannot be still with another only turmoil results. When you are still in the turbulence of another, stillness creates peace in you both and healing results.

Patience is still. Mastery is still.