The rest of you, my beautiful ppl, I ll say it again, my beautiful ppl, have a wonderful Christmas and a happy new year.

now who is the preacher ?

–abraham afeworki

‘what an idiot!’

you made yet another generalization. assuming that all cases of patience is a “[passive] wait for something to happen” is where you lost me.

as the the Ethiopian saying goes: if you want ‘qibe’, what choice do you have other than waiting patiently for the milk?…

Nol,
You just reduced patience to an act of waiting for some fools to change. That is not patience.

indeed, only a fool waits for something to change. & some things never change.

Yeah , that too

Great Holydays !

Neither you nor Nolawi are incorrect since both of you are approaching it from a two different angle, IMO.

Nolawi’s is what we, who, live in this land that gifts borderless-individual-freedom that has, inconspicuously, literally, exponentially with time, decayed our individual sense of purpose and reason.

As a result, we, like everyone else, gulping incessantly the thicky,seductive, irrestible, addictive resources that re-mold, re-shape us to innerly grow the pricky, tricky persona -one of them- mentioned by Nolawi …

The rest is history. what we input, is what we output.

If the newly Xformed senses fail to consume their now new “natural” doses, the ChiraQ comes out in thick, and that is what we each of us have become. If there is any A/Habesha that tells me who has kept his/her originality, the “Original” that originally shaped & molded us ..in that beautiful land… with its aching beauty of culture, lingua, spirituality, morality, people,.. then, I -EseGedalehu- Leza sew.

What yours Dinch is jot down to state Discipline & principle. One needs to exhibit patience to execute what one sets out to achieve. That type of patience has a purpose, a clear goal, a -YemiCHeBeT (touchable)- end-result. So, from the get-go, it is well startegized. The planner is decisivie in taking actions as planned and that is real easy to follow thru, particularly for a person with discipline & principle.

Overall:
we learn “patience” per our indivdual circumstances. when, we, as individuals, have no control of that thing we pursue; when we are pinned down by a state that is beyond our control, whether we like it or not we bitterly, anguishly learn to be patient. Our Mind is a conspicious -YeMerkato kisAwelaQi- that learns its circumstances quickly & act swiftly.

I have seen some indecisive friends abusing “patience”. They tell you that it is b/c they are “patient” that they give time to deal with it. ..Arif wisdom neber…if honesty is bundled to it.

Betty: I like your quotes from the Bible as well. Honestly, I wonder, how many of us really can remain true to the -will-of-God- & his purpose no matter what the circumstance & crude an environment we live in .. that is where the buck stops.

Best wishes & Happy Holidays to all !!!

This is not one of the few times I made sense…This is one of the few times we agreed…:)

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!

I am one of those “right here ..right now” ppl and I feel like I need to learn to be more patient.

You just reduced patience to an act of waiting for some fools to change. That is not patience.

Patience is what an athlet needs to train every day for four years until the next olympic.

Patience is what a father needs to train his child.

Patience is a virtue. It is a treasure. It is tried and true. Dont even go there.

It is ok to not have patience because nobody is perfect.

Here’s an instructive commentary on that chapter/verse:

“He is good to all; his tender mercies are over all his works; all his creatures taste of his goodness. But he is in a particular manner good to those that wait for him, to the soul that seeks him. Note, while trouble is prolonged, and deliverance is deferred, we must patiently wait for God and his gracious returns to us. While we wait for him by faith, we must seek him by prayer: our souls must seek him, else we do not seek so as to find. Our seeking will help to keep up our waiting. And to those who thus wait and seek, God will be gracious; he will show them his marvelous loving kindness.”

In the new year, we should focus more on God’s word and instructions for our lives, and become less reliant on our own faulty logic.

“Who in their right mind would passively wait for something to happen and call it a virtue” classic.

That is what I call ending the year with a bang