If you are trying to practice the principles outlined on this site in your life, then you may have already discovered that dramatic spiritual and psychological change may take some time. Certainly, we can begin changing immediately but some of the results of our changes will take time. For those of you short on patience who likes to get what they want when they want it, time is probably not one of your favorite words.
Time takes time and there is no way around that. We can choose to fight this simple fact or accept it. How many of you don’t bother to try something because the results are not immediate? If you maintain this attitude in regards to spiritual and psychological change, you may not experience much growth in those areas because short of a spiritual, life changing experience, we need to work at such changes, we need to practice spirituality and right living. Practice by definition implies a lack of immediate and permanent results.
An acronym for time that puts time in perspective is This I Must Earn. When we accept that we cannot change immediately and that some effort will be required to change, we can begin to appreciate time and not be afraid of it. It can actually be quite comforting to know that we do not need to change before tomorrow comes. We have the rest of our time to practice the spiritual life, as long or short as that time may be. Practicing Right Living is what life is all about. Considering that time is limited, I suggest not wasting any of it and getting to work, understanding that the sort of work to which I am referring is enjoyable and rewarding. I find such work to be the most gratifying and important work that I have ever performed.
Time teaches us patience and humility when we realize that we cannot snap our fingers and instantaneously become the people that we want to be. We’ll have to work and wait.
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