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The Quiet Power of Moving Forward When It’s Hard

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Patience isn’t twiddling your thumbs—it’s strapping on your boots and walking uphill, even when progress feels like a snail on a treadmill.

Patience is waiting. Not passively waiting. That is laziness. But to keep going when the going is hard and slow – that is patience. The two most powerful warriors are patience and time. ~ Leo Tolstoy

Reflection:

Tolstoy cuts through the fluff: patience isn’t passive. It’s not sitting in a chair hoping for better days—it’s doing the hard thing with grit and grace, even when results are slow to appear. True patience walks hand in hand with determination. It’s the decision to keep going when your legs are tired, your heart is uncertain, and the path is uphill. Time may not move at our pace, but it always moves—and patience walks with it like a trusted friend. In the long game of life, patience isn’t weakness—it’s strength dressed in quiet clothes. So when the journey drags, don’t mistake slowness for failure. You’re still moving. And that makes you one of life’s most powerful warriors.

Love Hour a Poem by Pieter Cornelis Boutens

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Love Hour

Pieter Cornelis Boutens

What time is it time?
It is the white dawn:
The deep meadow where no mower goes,
State of dewy flowers white and yellow;
The silver stream leads like a pure street
Road in the mist light azure;
And the morning singing heart, the lark, beats
From his dazed throat
Wisdom that does not pursue and each understands,
Joy without measure,
Joy without expensive….
What time is it time?
It’s love hour.

What time is it time?
The sun approaches noontime:
In the depths of the sea of glowing sky
Smothers the field under the gold bare;
The sickle sparks slash through the dry grain;
The shadow shrinks back into the wood;
In heaven and in waterway
No clouds go;
Only the white-transparent moon
Remains mere in the blue sky fire…
What time is it time?
It’s love hour.

What time is it time?
It’s the evening: in its rosy gold
Gets clean and old
The world’s daily face;
Quickly in the sky falls the water of light;
And all the wind voices are released;
The last wagon staggers to the barn;
The dead beckon to the dark Eastern wall;
And above shine
Western ramp in green sky meadow
Shine open Venus’ golden aster
So sudden and pure…
What time is it time?
It’s love hour.

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You’re Special

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Declare today a “take care of myself day.” You deserve it. Putting yourself first may sound selfish. It is, however, the most important thing you do this week. Taking care of one’s self begins with creating space so you can find time to step aside, even for a few moments, from life’s demands. How you take care of yourself is up to you. Be creative. If you feel guilty, enjoy the guilt feelings. Seriously. The guilt feelings were passed on to by other people. Don’t let them stop you from taking time for yourself. Here’s some starting tips: Avoid drama. Have the courage to say, “NO!” Someone interrupts and wants a decision, say, “I’ll think about it.” C’mon, you’re special. Treat yourself as such.

Today’s Quote: Patience and Time Triumph

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Patience is waiting. Not passively waiting. That is laziness. But to keep going when the going is hard and slow – that is patience. The two most powerful warriors are patience and time. ~ Leo Tolstoy

The Loom of Time: A Poem by an Unknown Author

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The Loom of Time

Author Unknown

Man’s life is laid in the loom of time
To a pattern he does not see,
While the weavers work and the shuttles fly
Till the dawn of eternity.

Some shuttles are filled with silver threads
And some with threads of gold,
While often but the darker hues
Are all that they may hold.

But the weaver watches with skillful eye
Each shuttle fly to and fro,
And sees the pattern so deftly wrought
As the loom moves sure and slow.

God surely planned the pattern:
Each thread, the dark and fair,
Is chosen by His master skill
And placed in the web with care.

He only knows its beauty,
And guides the shuttles which hold
The threads so unattractive,
As well as the threads of gold.

Not till each loom is silent,
And the shuttles cease to fly,
Shall God reveal the pattern
And explain the reason why

The dark threads were as needful
In the weaver’s skillful hand
As the threads of gold and silver
For the pattern which He planned.

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Thinking Out Loud ~ The Mad Hatter Offers a Lesson About Time

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Today’s Thinking Out Loud reflection is on Lewis Carroll’s work, Alice in Wonderland. Alice in Wonderland is available for free download from Project Gutenberg here.

Alice sighed wearily. “I think you might do something better with the time,” she said, “than wasting it asking riddles with no answers.”

“If you knew Time as well as I do,” said the Hatter, “you wouldn’t talk about wasting it. It’s him.”

“I don’t know what you mean,” said Alice.

“Of course you don’t!” the Hatter said, tossing his head contemptuously. “I daresay you never spoke to Time!”

Note: I once stopped for dinner at a highway restaurant. My waitress didn’t stop moving for a moment. She was going back and forth, this way and that way in perpetual motion. From what I could see nothing much was getting done. I could barely catch her attention. She filled her time with busyness. The time we have is a treasure. A moment of time lost, is a moment lost forever. When we understand the preciousness of each moment, we gain a new perspective of what is important and what is not so important. Maybe the Hatter is right, we need to get know Time.

Patience and Time Win the Day – Read Leo Tolstoy’s Quote

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“The two most powerful warriors are patience and time.”

Leo Tolstoy

Poem for Today ~

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Ecclesiastes 3:1-8

To every thing there is a season,
and a time to every purpose under the heaven:
A time to be born, a time to die;
a time to plant, and a time to pluck up that which is planted;
A time to kill, and a time to heal;
a time to break down, and a time to build up;
A time to weep, and a time to laugh;
a time to mourn, and a time to dance;
A time to cast away stones, and a time to gather stones together;
a time to embrace, and a time to refrain from embracing;
A time to get, and a time to lose;
a time to keep, and a time to cast away;
A time to rend, and a time to sew;
a time to keep silence, and a time to speak;
A time to love, and a time to hate;
A time of war, and a time of peace.

Inspiring Quote of the Day ~ Take Time to Relax

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“Time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.”

~ Marthe Troly-Curtin

Today’s Inspiration ~ The Way to Use Time

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“The past is behind, learn from it. The future is ahead, prepare for it. The present is here, live it.”

~ Thomas S. Monson

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