Sunday, December 16, 2007

Making Sense of Patience


"There are two mistakes one can make along the road to truth...not going all the way, and not starting.” -Siddhartha Gautama (Buddha)


There is difficulty in waiting... impossibly trying to crystallize the potentiality of a future family. We're looking for answers, clues,... and yearning for clarity! The struggle continues to be to grow our own convictions while being faced with the adversity of not knowing. It's not that we expect convenience, immediacy, or predictability... its just that adoption (like the rest of life), provides us with huge unknowns and the context can appear to change very slowly... Observing patience once again appears to be the recurring theme of our cyclic curriculum. Perhaps it too is beautiful, like the horizon before the sun shines? Surely, it wouldn't be the first time that we've encountered divinity in the form of anxiety.