Impatience. Happy Sunday!

“If your eye is generous, your whole being is full of light!” Jesus

This year I am very impatient for spring. I bought a new eBike in February and took delivery in early March to be ready for spring riding. Of course, you can not count on consistent spring weather in Maine at least until May, so I don’t know what the hurry was. Pure impatience, and only guaranteed to intensify my impatience this year. I have gotten out on the bike three days so far, when the thermometer crept up over 40, and, on at least two of those days, when the sun was shinning. I was bundled up all three times, but on the day without sun, I caught a cold which is still with me two weeks later. Impatience! 

There are lots of things that it might be okay to be impatient for. The coming of goodness in our own hearts. The increase in our ability to love. The cessation of strife in the world and the coming of peace. These we might legitimately be impatient for. But no...I am pretty sure impatience is never a good thing...even when impatient for something undeniably good. After all, spring is a good too, especially when caught in the tail end of winter. But impatience is not good, mainly because it changes nothing...it has no power to do anything but make us more unhappy, and rob us of the joy to be had in the day itself. I might look forward with anticipation to the joy of riding my new bike, but not if that looking forward is going to blind me to the real good to be found in each day I live. Someday I might learn to do that...to delight in the day, and the day only. And I will admit to being just slightly impatient for that day...which shows just how far I am from it. The generous eye is open wide to the joy of the moment, and that is the real truth. Happy Sunday!