Saturday, December 11, 2010

A Patient with Patience

I am sure I am not the first to point out this connection between the noun and the verb.

Patient: a noun, a person being treated by a doctor
Patient: a verb, to wait with calm for a certain outcome

The first has to have the other to survive the healing process. They are so closely connected that somewhere in the foggy past of language development, they came to be the same word.

I am finding the connection a blessing as I continue this healing journey, one step at a time.

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