Patience....... / Geduld........

Patience ...is waiting. Not passively waiting, (that's laziness); but to KEEP GOING when the going is 'hard & slow'..... That IS....Patience!

The sea does not reward those who are tóó Anxious, tóó Greedy, or tóó Impatient....

To 'dig' for treasures shows not only Impatience & Greed, -but lack of Faith. 

Patience, patience, patience, ........is what the sea teaches. 

Patience & Faith. 

One should lie empty......, open......, choiceless as a beach – waiting for a gift from the sea... 

No doubt, losing children empties you like nothing else....

Life brings full circle every decision we have made, -every seed ever sown. 

God, in His Infinite Mercy, 

......tills the land, 

......making a beauty of our ashes.

It does matter that we choose the strait gate, the narrow way. 

It matters that there had to be a reckoning, a punishment for violations...
I have no fear though straight the gate:
He cleared from punishment the scroll.
Christ is the Master of my fate!
Christ is the Captain of my soul!

Shalom ..... & Maranatha!