Patience

They say patience is a virtue.  I say patience is a positive trait.  It is the ability to bear delay with confidence and calm.  This means maintaining a fine balance between inward peace and outward control.  It takes time and patience to reap the benefits of dialysis.  Minutes pass like hours and hours pass like days.  In our world of instant gratification, waiting is a learned behavior, and some people are just better at it than others.  Maybe we would automatically become more patient if we were to dismiss our exaggerated expectations of what is due us.  God's timing does not always meet with our own, and sometimes we are required to wait.  With this comes the trust and hope that God has a bigger plan for us.  Sometimes he removes us from a situation and other times he takes us through it.  Whatever you are waiting for, be it your treatment to end or your transplant to begin, know that, "For everything there is a season and a time for every matter under heaven." (Ecc. 3:1-2)  As for myself, I've always believed that "Good things come to those who wait..."

Hang in there...Jodi