Work For It

 Patience is good as someone said, but perseverance is better.  In any spiritual practice be it religion or recovery, you need to have patience that things are going to work out for the better in whatever practice you have.  Hope might be the connector between patience and perseverance.  You have to work at recovery or spiritual growth.  It does not happen just by sitting there and listening to a preacher or someone share their recovery process.  Such points in a direction, but direction is for a path and the path has to be worked.  This takes perseverance because the results are not so apparent early on.  Perseverance means discipline and following directions from those who have been or are on the path.  Growth comes “if you work for it.”