I am born an Aries, “the head” sign: I am a great sprinter. Marathons, not so much.
Can you tell from this post that this is a night when I am down to fumes?
Patience right now feels very close to: I am out of gas.
The Hebrew word for patience is transliterated as “savlanut.” It comes from a three-letter root meaning burden, load, suffering, pain: the same root of the words used to describe the hard labor of the enslaved Israelites making bricks from straw for Pharoah. Its linguistic cousins include: porter, stevedore, passivity, endurance, tolerance. You can see how these belong to the same word-family.
I’ve devoted myself more to cultivating resilience – the capacity to recover – than I have to bearing burdens. Maybe, I wonder to myself, if I practiced bearing burdens with more patience and tolerance and less suffering, I wouldn’t have to tend so much to recovering?
No comment yet, add your voice below!