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| Lake Como, Italy May 2008 |
Four years later, my prayers were answered.
I want to beg you, as much as I can, to be patient toward all that is unresolved in your heart, and to try to love the questions themselves like locked rooms and like books that are written in a very foreign language.
Do not seek the answers, which cannot be given to you because you would not be able to live them.
And the point is to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps you will then gradually, without noticing it, live along some distant day into the answer.
- Rainer Maria Rilke
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Love is patient
1 Corinthians 13:4
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Therefore be patient, brethren, until the coming of the Lord.
The farmer waits for the precious produce of the soil, being
patient about it, until it gets the early and late rains. You too be
patient; strengthen your hearts, for the coming of the Lord is near.
Do not complain, brethren, against one another, so that you
yourselves may not be judged; behold, the Judge is standing right at the door.
As an example, brethren, of suffering and patience, take the prophets who
spoke in the name of the Lord. We count those blessed who endured.
You have heard of the endurance of Job and have seen the outcome
of the Lord's dealings, that the Lord is full of compassion and is merciful.
James 5:7-11
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It is the lack of patience that makes us hurry things in life,
why we can't stand still. We tend to look for results rather than the process.
- My brother
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