Patience and Persistence

The race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong. — Ecclesiastes

Overwhelming firepower doesn’t win most battles–especially battles of the inner kind–but patience and persistence do.

We adult children have many battles to fight. Battles with negative thinking, male or female dependency, fear of abandonment, shame, and guilt. We often feel weak, unsure, and powerless against such terrifying and constant forces.

When we think we can’t put up a fight one more day, we need to remember that we learned these attitudes one day at a time, event by event, thought by thought. And that’s the only way we can beat them–one blow at a time.

Patience and persistence must be our secret weapons. Homely and undramatic as they are, these two inner soldiers will advance the struggle far more than an exhausting frontal assault that may rage momentarily and then die out.

I am confident that patience and persistence will win out in the long run. And I am grateful for that insight.

Today’s Meditation from:

Days of Healing, Days of Joy: Daily Meditations for Adult Children by Earnie Larsen & Carol Larsen Hegarty