Saturday, August 3, 2013

Virtue


Exquisite, simply exquisite. These flowers are little white tubes that blossom at the tip. They seem to tease you with their coyness. "I am blooming, yet not quite. Wait some more." Their fullness suspended.  I think that they try to teach us patience. You can't have it all at once. You need to wait. If you go off, you won't get to see them at full bloom. Good things come to those who wait.

“A waiting person is a patient person. The word patience means the willingness to stay where we are and live the situation out to the full in the belief that something hidden there will manifest itself to us.”       ― Henri J.M. Nouwen