I was reading an ad the other day and the tag line was Active Patience. Once I read those reads, I stopped. I was in AWE mode. I literally sat there and said those words, over and over. Active patience, active patience, active patience. It was very striking to me. Normally, when we think of patience, it simply means to wait. I think for many of us patience has become synonymous with passiveness. Seriously, for the next two to three days, those words kept circling back to me.
I needed to stop and be reflective and search "my why". So, here we are to share that reflection.
It started with understanding what the word, active meant while I waited. Now, patience doesn't always imply that you are waiting for something to happen, but for me that was reverberating and drawing my attention. I have been waiting for some things to manifest in my life. How I wait for those manifestations are key to my peace, purpose and positioning. Active means that there is movement and energy. For me, it was what am I going to do while I am being patient within the process of manifestation.
These are my actions that surfaced...many of them I am already doing. But, how do they deepen or take on a greater degree of intentionality through the frame of active patience?
I am going to be active in my obedience to God
I am going to actively seek out my encouragers, Team Karen
I am going to actively learn skills that I will need in the next level of elevation
I am going to actively pray without ceasing
I am going to actively reduce stress and elevate joy
There are specific activities or thoughts that you need to engage in and with, as you are calmly waiting for the blessing, the revelation, the deliverance, the lesson...the manifestation.
How we wait determines the state of our mind, health and heart. As I sought to seek understanding about active patience, I became excited and intrigued. Too many times, we sit and patiently wait, while opportunities of engagement pass by us because we have relegated our patience to mean inactivity. We never attain the level of destiny that we were meant to have because we are idle. We need to discern the time to be still and the time for active patience.
Think about this, if we are in a traffic jam, most of us (LOL) sit patiently and wait. We slowly inch along braking and stopping, but still keeping our eyes open, hands on the steering wheel, moving our foot from brake to accelerator, as the car slowly moves forward. We eventually make it to our destination. The traffic jam is a delay, but we are still actively driving the car, but at a slower pace. We are an active participant, while patiently waiting for the break (in traffic).
We are called to actively participate in the divine plan that God has for our lives, including to be actively patient. Active patience is the cure for impatience. Impatience creates frustration, irritability, aggravation and the like. If we are active in our patience, then we are not sitting around grumbling about the timing because we are working and building excitement for the breakthrough. Sis, don't fall into the detrimental trap of impatience.
If this is your first introduction to this phrase, I challenge you to sit with them like I did to gain understanding. If you are already familiar with these words, I hope you are recentered to be inspired and comforted by them.
Let's be active in our patience.
#WorkandWait
~KDP
#Unbothered #StrongandBeautiful #ActivePatience #James1:4