The second of my "Lessons Learned From Injury" is Patience...
(2) Patience
- By Ruth Calder Murphy -
Learning to wait
- learning to fill the space
between “then” and “there”
blossom, and bear
previously unimagined fruits;
to turn the injury
to opportunity -
not stare at dashed hope
and mourn for what might have been,
but grow a different seed in the tired ground
and harvest unexpected crops
and richer soil
from doing things differently
for a little while.
Patience, I’ve learned,
is not just sitting still
until the wait is done;
it’s seeing opportunity
where frustration
almost won.
Image: "Under the Trees" By Ruth Calder Murphy