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"Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet." - Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Carl Jung said, "Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word happy would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness. It is far better take things as they come along with patience and equanimity."

The photographer for a magazine was assigned to get photos of a great forest fire. Smoke at the scene hampered him, so he asked his office to hire a plane. Arrangements were made, so he was asked to go to a nearby airport, where the plane would be waiting. When he arrived at the airport, a plane was warming up near the runway. He jumped in with his equipment and yelled, "Let's go! Let's go!" The pilot swung the plane into the wind and they soon were in the
air. "Fly over the north side of the fire," yelled the photographer, "and make three or four low level passes." "Why?" asked the pilot. "Because I'm going to take pictures," cried the photographer. "I'm a photographer and photographers take pictures!" After a pause the pilot said, "You mean you're not the instructor?"

It's alarming to realize how many of us, are flying in mid-air: having rushed into life - making hasty, and impatient decisions - putting us at the risk of losing their lives, in the aircraft of life with novice pilots, and many have lost their lives as a result. A true child of God makes no haste, because there is a way that feels right, but actually is just been a trap of the devil. Like the photographer, we could end up with an amateur pilot. Ask questions.