Organic Patience

"Those who are certain of the outcome can afford to wait, and wait without anxiety. All he sees is certain outcome, at a time perhaps unknown to him as yet, but not in doubt. The time will be as right as is the answer. Patience is natural to those who trust." -- A Course in Miracles

As most of you know by now, when I use the word organic I am using it in the natural sense, something that arises and emerges spontaneously out of its own nature. Like a seed sprouting from within itself, without apparent cause or motivation or design. In this sense, trust and patience are like our true seed-selves. They are attributes of Self that echo Who We Really are within the many storied dream we call life. And they are organic in the sense that they are effortlessly present when we drop our stories of who, what, and where... and they seem to sprout within us and give us new vision and inspiration to carry on within this world of dreams.

Regardless of the circumstances in which we find ourselves, organic patience is a core resource we all have, an attribute of Self we all share. This gives us the ability to gaze on what we most resist and see through it, to know that it is not reality, and that Who We Are remains untouched and unchangingly Whole, Loving, and in Peace and Joy. The bliss of this is beyond measure. Who We Are is beyond measure.

ACIM tells us unequivocally, "Nothing the world believes is true." Impatience always arises out of the illusion that there is truth in what we see. If all is our own projection, and we have never been apart from God, from the One, then not one thing that appears within our dream world can be true. The Allness of God and our eternal Oneness with Him is our only reality. Within this One, our true Self, there can be no lack or suffering, no opposites at all. "What is all-encompassing can have no opposites."

Organic patience arises from the Awareness of our Oneness with God, and the certainty that arises from this intuitive knowing. Organic patience is this ancient knowing we have always carried within us. ACIM reminds us, "As God created you, you must remain unchangeable, with all transitory states by definition false. And that includes all shifts in feelings and alterations in conditions of body or mind."

"No longer doubt that only good can come to you who are beloved of God." -- A Course in Miracles