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August 23, 2006

PATIENCE

Patience is such an enormous word that it should be spelled super-ca-la-fra-ga-lis-tic-s-p-ala-doe-shous.  I am learning to use patience more and more each day, at greater lengths and in all aspects of my life.  Some people may say that I am indecisive.  Some may say I am lazy.  But in the long run I would like to think that I DO accomplish what and when things need to be done.  Isn't that the main purpose of "dead lines"?

Since I mentioned Dead Lines.......back at my previous job (by the way which I miss all of ya'll),  I had absolute dead lines.  Everybody did.  What was the point in getting a project finished too early and then something, at the last minute, changes the outcome and have to redo the work?  My view was/is to just wait until all the facts were in, and then do the job.

Back to "patience".  (were you getting impatient with my rambling about Dead Lines?)  Seriously now.  Today was a good example.  I had previously gotten myself into a non-serious situation that I was unsure what the outcome would be.  Then.....today a gentleman introduced himself and his business to me.  Problem solved.

Odd coincidences have been unveiling themselves to me ever since Ronnie passed away.   I thought I had mentioned this before.....but I could not find my own post of it, to insert the link.  So first, the short version.........if I intensely LOOK for something particular, I can not find it.  But if I wait and give it time, then it will appear itself to me.

Second try......back to "patience".  I have turned into a wait-and-see  or a don't-get-in-an-uproar kind of person.  A wise relative told me shortly after Ronnie's death, "Don't make any major decisions for at least a year."  This brings to mind another person which called me, only one month after loosing Ronnie, in wanting to buy some of Ronnie's multi-hobby-related items.  I told him THEN  "I was in NO rush."   Then......I told him AGAIN YESTERDAY  "I have your phone number - I will call you when  I  get ready!!!!"    I tell you, this man must have the 22nd marked on his calendar as "bug Cindy day".

OOPS..........Patience is wearing thin.    "COME BACK,  PATIENCE !"

I didn't say that I had it mastered.

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Yesterday I was tackling a document I'd been given to edit. One problem after another emerged, requiring me to do this and that thing before I could even BEGIN to read it.

After wandering by the room in which I struggled several times, my husband grinned sympathetically and asked,

"You haven't been praying for patience lately, have you?"

I had to chuckle. Was this troublesome document a thorn in my flesh, or a heaven-sent opportunity to practice patience? I think the answer to that question was "Yes"!

Maybe Mr. Persistent on the phone is in the same category for you. :-)

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