Father Henri J. M. Nouwen’s Daily Meditation – Sunday, January
5, 2014 “Living the Moment to the Fullest”
Patience is a hard discipline. It is not just waiting until
something happens over which we have no control: the arrival of the bus, the
end of the rain, the return of a friend, the resolution of a conflict. Patience
is not a waiting passivity until someone else does something. Patience asks us
to live the moment to the fullest, to be completely present to the moment, to
taste the here and now, to be where we are. When we are impatient we try to get
away from where we are. We behave as if the real thing will happen tomorrow,
later and somewhere else. Let's be patient and trust that the treasure we look
for is hidden in the ground on which we stand.
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