Too often
Or sometimes,
Things don’t go as planned
Or how you like
Or stuff doesn’t work.
Whatever.

Patience is required.
The capacity to step back
Away from your high bench of expectations and demands.

Patience is required.
To see the bigger picture
Letting go of your important micro-moment
That squeezes from you “this shouldn’t be!”
Practice noticing gently
Gingerly
Genuinely
Generously
What’s happening,
In you
Around you
With you
Because of you
For you
Regardless of you.
There is always much more happening than you’ll ever have the grace to know.

Give life your patience.
Sit back.
Wait for the grand curtains of your expectations.
Let them open, from the top
The fabric pulling and waving at you
As they open the stage of your consciousness, revealing…

That you are a willing theatre participant
(Having bought a very expensive front row seat after all.)
And allow yourself to drink in the stage
The Grand Set
The magnificence of the play you wrote.

Patience will open your heart
As you bear witness to the brilliant master plot of your play.