2010-10-22-About Patience

Session

Lesson

Teacher: “Sometimes you lose your patience when things don’t turn out as you expected them to, or when others don’t comply with your wishes or needs.  Sometimes you think that the solution is not to wish for anything to go right, but this is a way to fall into apathy and hopelessness.

“The only way to exercise patience is by practicing it.  Time and time again in your life you will face opportunities to put aside your immediate wishes in exchange for participating in an experience that could be valuable to you.  This is the key.  Consider that each time you have to abandon what you planned to do, and having to do something unexpected, there will be a hidden opportunity for you, there will be something you could learn, even if it is only patience for you to be practicing at that moment.

“Do you see how everything can transform into a growth opportunity for you?  You only need an attitude adjustment to let things happen when you have no control over events.

“In life, many things have to be experienced in order to grow and progress spiritually.  Generally, no one knows what it is they need to learn without them being exposed to new situations.  This is why these learning opportunities always come as surprises, as something unexpected.  But they don’t necessarily have to cause us pain, anguish or anger.

“Unexpected things may seem to us like problems or bothers.  They could also be considered to be opportunities and gifts sent by our Father for our spiritual advancement, and for us to get a better hold on the path to perfection.  The way in which we consider the unexpected depends entirely on us.  Learn to see every unexpected situation as an opportunity the Father provides us, for us to become more like Him.  Your life will become more pleasurable and the glow of your personality will progressively become more evident.

“You can’t plan every event in your life but you can choose to be happy and enjoy each day by the way in which you face the world.  The Father has prepared everything so you can be happy, but if you want to achieve the goal of perfection some lessons will need to be learned.  The best students usually enjoy the school experience better when they are aware of what they are learning and how they are improving.  This is the result of their desire to learn and the attitude of taking advantage of every opportunity to be better.  To live, to really live, is to love life for what it is: A school carefully prepared by our Father to turn us into the best we can be.

“Another aspect of patience is to be patient with your self.  When you see that you have failed in your efforts in overcoming the trials that you faced, don’t let yourself fall into hopelessness or despair.  Realizing that you have failed should be enough motivation to help you come back to the path you had decided to walk, not an excuse to deviate even further.  These truths will become more and more clear in your awareness, and you will be able to make adjustments as long as you keep an open mind.

“Could you begin to understand this even when you are tired, sad, or angry?  Once you have learned this lesson, you will suffer no more because of this.  It doesn’t mean that such situations will not repeat themselves.  It means that when these situations occur in the future you will not suffer because of them, for therein lies the beauty of the scheme of progressive evolution of human beings.  You are being prepared to be perfect beings, able to react to any possible situation as the Father would.  Once this certainty is yours you will hear the voice of the Father announcing to the creation that you have been won for the Kingdom.  From that moment on, you and the Father will be one, and you will, in fact, have achieved eternity.”