Change is not static, passive or just a ‘once of’ event. Change is not an incident; it is a process. Process implies something is started, set in motion and given power to move forward. Process stimulates constant states of growing and becoming. All living systems, including you and all your realtionships, are captured in this constant state of becoming, this process called ‘change’.
Patience is the one virtue that empowers us to cultivate change. Patience is pregnant with the understanding that we are not in control of the world. God is. We have to discard our control-centred paradigms in order to deeply understand change.
A garden can only be cultivated and not controlled. The proverb says, “There is no garden without a gardener.” Every garden has all the potential to become everything it is meant to be. An unwise (impatient) gardener plants a seed today and expects a tree tomorrow.
The gardener’s responsibility is not to supply growth. His responsibility is to cultivate the seed, to supply the right environment for the seed to grow. He doesn’t make the seed to grow, he only believes that the tree is already in the seed.
