In some stories, there are no heroes. We fail sometimes. Perseverance is simply not giving up when we have no guarantees of success. Love is the goal. There are so many things we can not know about each other or what is good, and perfect and lovely. So Patience finds her way through storms and lovingly accepts what she does not know – and still , she loves. Her direction is simple: to place her sadness and defeat in the folds of her heart and wait. This is patience’ story. She waits. Some of her friends have begun to advise her against the wisdom of this perseverence. But, the heart is as unmanageable and unpredictable as the ocean. There is comfort in the sea air. Comfort also in the sun as it finds its way to her. She rests in the knowledge that she is not the author or the finisher of this journey. So she waits.
