Impatience

OCT. 26, 1980, 5:59 AM
W. WILLOW, STUDY

I promised you, o son, a counter-teaching to the one titled “Patience”. This morning seems to be an appropriate time for such. You are feeling some vague impatience… at least not pure patience and tranquility.

Let’s consider the positive values of impatience first. When a situation is undesirable, particularly in relation to the development and expression of spirit it is good to be impatient. There are some things in the world that need changing. Some, as you might expect, are arranged and offered to you as a test or tests. I expect you to be impatient… I want you to be impatient and want to bring about change. Do you have the spiritual courage to meet such challenges? Will you exercise the spirit in such ways to keep it active and viable? One means of expression of My love for you and for certain others… for all, at times… is a test that brings forth impatience and the desire to affect changes in the circumstances encountered.

Having said this, let Me reiterate, strongly, that most of life situations, even for you, are not arranged by Me, but happen out of the “natural” course of events and the myriad interactions which constitute life. I am interested in and I observe such situations… in which impatience is appropriate… and such opportunities are often better than ones I arrange.

The developed spirit should feel and demonstrate impatience with dishonesty, with cowardice, with disregard for the ecological relationships in this earth of Mine… with selfishness, with short-sightedness, with prejudice.

However, spiritual power is tested in real life situations, and in such you may need to feel impatience with prejudice, but be kindly patient with the person who shows forth the prejudice. Some of the most difficult tests of the human spirit involve the conflict between love, which is patient, and justice, which is sometimes impatient. In the abstract it may be easy. But when you must try to separate what a person is doing from himself as a person… to be patient with the person, but impatient with the behavior… it is most difficult.