Building the Brooklyn Bridge . . .
. . . took PATIENCE.
How long does CHANGE take? Are we willing to wait?
The Brooklyn Bridge stands not only as a feat of human creation,
but as a statement about what is going on under the surface of a person.
Watch our Truth in Two to find out why (full text below).
Patience is a building process accomplished not in days but in decades.
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FULL TEXT:
It stands as testimony to human fortitude, to patience, to longsuffering. The Brooklyn Bridge took 14 years to build from 1869 to 1883. The Brooklyn Bridge now spans the East River connecting Brooklyn to Manhattan, the longest suspension bridge in the world. The work was grueling.
Eighty feet below the waterline was a layer of sand that had to be removed to expose bedrock. Caissons — enormous wood and steel boxes each about 20 feet tall, air tight and measuring half a football field — were floated to the site and sunk under heavy stones. Water was forced out under steady streams of compressed air, and then workers piled in through airlocks to excavate the sand one wheelbarrow load at a time.
More than 130 years later, the Brooklyn Bridge remains a major transportation artery and an essential part of life in New York City because builders did their most patient work laying the foundation beneath the water’s surface.
Patience also gives people time to grow and change, a process that happens beneath the surface of their person. We often expect others to conform to our schedule of change. If you do not transform your thinking you are sidelined, set aside, called names, believed to be irredeemable, publicly flogged in social media. We verbally beat people, berating them for their suspected irredeemable qualities. We leave people no space and we certainly do not give any grace. We think our triumphant word wins the day because we are in “the right.” But patience for another, on behalf of another, takes time. Patience allows youth to age, ignorance to fade, and our desire for immediate justice to be put on hold.
Patience is longsuffering, in for the long haul, what Galatians calls a fruit of The Spirit, a process of building that takes place in a person’s spirit.
For Truth in Two, this is Dr. Mark Eckel, President of the Comenius Institute, personally seeking truth wherever it’s found.