Week 1 - Love is Patient

Note:  This will be the first in a series of forty weekly notes about my current walk through The Love Dare.  I know, it's designed as a 40-day study, but I'm going to tackle it as a 40-week one.  I want to walk through it slowly, to absorb as much of the experience as I can.  I debated whether to even blog this study.  But in the end, I decided to, because I've found that writing my thoughts gives me a different perspective to focus on them again, and it gives me a historical perspective at some point in the future.  There's some form of therapy in writing.


Week 1 - Love is Patient
This was actually last week (March 14th - 20th), but I'm just now getting to blogging about it.

I take some pride in being what I hope is a patient person.  Sometimes I wonder if I'm too patient.  By that, I wonder if patience isn't sometimes viewed as being disconnected.  But enough about me.  I don't want this series to be about me.

I want this series to be about me and Therapist.

Thankfully, I haven't had to practice too much patience with her.  I'm not sure I can say the same for her though.  I'm quite positive there's been more than a few occasions where she could have lost her patience with me.  But she's chosen not to.  And for that, I am thankful. 

Patience is a choice.  It's not natural for us, because we're wired for selfish self-preservation. Therapist makes the choice for patience very well, and for that I am thankful.  I'm even more thankful for the fact that I've not had my patience tested by her.  I'm not foolish enough to think that it will never happen, as patience is tested when a desire is met with disappointment.  Everyone fails.  My test of patience isn't so much with others, but it's with myself.  I know people fail.  I just have to learn to accept that sometimes my desires and expectations may not be met, therefore it's a test of patience with myself.

I'm thankful for Therapist's patience.  If I can ask for "patience credit" from her, then I need to start making deposits into that account, because I'm sure the day will come I'll need to swipe that card.