I Think I Feel Some Patience Coming On

A long time proponent of speed and efficiency, patience has been my nemesis. I was dumb enough to pray for patience and don’t do that. But the result in the end plus much Bible study, maturity (ahem), fasting and prayer but mostly a gift from God via the Holy Spirit, I noticed a leaning toward patience today.

My perspective: it is only achieved with humble surrender and God.

I was asked something very harshly, with a definite ignorance showing about me and my life’s journey. Rather than correct, I instantly surrendered that to God and let it go and was able to see their need rather than any hurt or anger of mine. And I prayed with them about their need, not een feeling at all some prideful correction in their ignorant words.

You see, I am not on this planet for me. You aren’t eiter, frankly. We are here, designed by God with love for God, then for others and then nature’s care. You too. When we live our design, everything clicks and the fruits of the Holy Spirit (love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, genteness and self-control) start to naturally come out. Wow! God knows what He is doing!😄❤❤❤

When Waits the Soul

When waits the soul with bated breath

The love divine, primordial pull,

The captive plays a wondrous game

“Loves me, loves me not” it goes.

When waits the soul of tender heart

For love’s culmination on the cusp

But never seeming to arrive

The heart and soul scream “It must!”

The soul waits hard and with heaviness

And each day grows more impatient

When waits the soul for lover’s voice

Or eyes or touch or gentleness.❤

Calm in the Wait

Waiting used to be excruciating for me. I really had an enormous problem with patience. It took many hard and difficult (seemingly impossible at the time) lessons to learn it. Now, I have finally learned the lesson that God wanted me to learn long ago to wait on Him in His peace. And it all started with really grasping that the awesome God of the universe loves me and is truly always here with me. Why am I in a hurry? I am with God everywhere I am. I can rest in His love anywhere and wherever I am, no matter what I am doing. And so I have grown up a lot and am definitely calm and at peace in the wait. I wait with the Lord and for Him. What more could I want?❤

Waiting with Grace

Waiting requires grace to do it well. Patience is a silly thing to consider because it can not change the waiting in any way except to describe how gracefully you are waiting. I wait for my Savior’s return, which can happen anytime, and used to do so with less grace, but I realize I must use grace to gently continue my role here until His return so He will be pleased with me. I simply must. So grace is my new goal and friend. I welcome her.❤