Patience and Waiting Intertwined

When you wait, you need to have patience to endure the waiting. On the other hand, when you have patience that will only mean that you know how to wait for the perfect time for everything. Patience and waiting are virtues that develop a person's positive outlook in life.

Now here is the scenario: Late Monday afternoon, I was waiting for a transportation bound for my hometown in a gasoline station where southbound vehicles usually pass by. I had been there for almost an hour but the coasters and jeepneys that came were loaded enough that I could not anymore be accommodated. There were already seven trips that I missed and I started to worry. When I was already giving up, that I already wanted to return to the city terminal, I had my long wait over. A van (also means of transportation nowadays) arrived and luckily, it still had a lot of vacant seats where I got the chance to ride comfortably. I had a nice and comfy trip home. I didn't have to bear a standing position in a coaster, as well as to sit on a small wooden bench just to have ride home.

It was very simple situation that everybody gets to experience in a day-to-day basis, but honestly, it had an impact on me. It may seem to be a very ordinary circumstance but at one point, the Lord has His own way of suing common situations to make us realize His existence. The ordinary experiences each day at times carry a message or a lesson perhaps. And it, reminded me that patience and waiting always go hand in hand. The scenario applies in all aspects of life, especially at a certain point where we are trapped in an upsetting dilemma.

In relationships, I guess my little theory is valid. When you worry enough of not finding “the one” for you, the value of waiting helps. Finding the right person for you does not happen overnight, that is why I am not a believer of the “love at first sight.” patiently wait for God's perfect will for your life, including the right person He will send you. Patiently know the person, and wait for the right time to commit. You may have several failed relationships. Still, wait and be patient for the right relationship for you. The bus and the jeepneys may represent the people that come and go in your life, but when you give patience and waiting a space in yourself... in the end, everything will fall into place because you patiently wait. The right vehicle will intentionally stop in front of you, to tell you that they would love to have you in the journey.

Let us try to relate it with finding a career in life. Success, again is not as easy as 1..2..3.. just like finding the ideal career just right for you. Working hard to achieve what you want in life is the key. In the concept of hard work, still patience and waiting are major ingredients. Patience because of the uneasy trail to reach success, and waiting for the right break for your hard work. To start a career is just like waiting for the right bus to come. The first bus may have ignored you because it is overloaded and the jeepney might not stop because you do not fit in there, but believing that there are still a lot if vehicles to come that will accommodate you, is always the right attitude. Again, patience is truly needed to be able to wait f r the right ride. You may be rejected in an application, or evicted because you don't fit in anymore- but believe, there is always something designed for you where you can make use of your full potentials. Patiently try again in times of frustration or stand after a fall, then wait for other chance to come intended for you.

The two virtues always come entangled. These will help us to always open up our minds to positiveness. Whatever is for us, it will come. It may not be that immediate, but surely it will happen.