Patience

Patience is a virtue;
a laying down of ones human ambitions that bring gain to self, for the sake of others.
Patience requires sacrifice,
it requires one to view life not in a small square box called "here and now"
but through a far broader spectrum.
Patience believes in change no matter the circumstances,
it's hope in better things to come never ceases.
It gives in to peace when anger rises,
defying the act of the human will;
of the flesh of the human heart
... because even the heart can be a deceiver.
When patience moves in it is a beautiful gift,
divine in nature,
the fruit of a life lived in the pursuit of love (first for God and then for others).
Love is it's heartbeat,
the life and breathe within it.