Ok, let me give you a little backstory. In college, our activities board hosted random things for the students to do on campus. One of those activities was making stuffed animals (kind of like Build-a-Bear) as a remembrance of our childhood as well as a stress reliever.
[Yes, we were college students, but sometimes you just need the comfort of a stuffed animal...]
So I picked a white rabbit as my stuffed animal. When I was trying to decide what to name it, I was apparently struggling with patience (who knew), so I creatively named her Patience.
Fast forward to when Holly Curry was spending the night with me in my dorm room junior year. We would drag my futon mattress into my room, so one of us could sleep on the bed and one on the futon mattress. While I can't recall the story exactly, I'm pretty sure as we were up late talking, and at one point I asked Holly to toss Patience to me.
I'm sitting on the futon mattress in the dark, just waiting for Holly to hand it to me. Next thing I know, I'm being smacked in the face with a stuffed bunny.
Needless to say, I didn't really think that one through :]
Anyways, after we had a good laugh about it, Holly responds with, "Then Patience hit ya like a bunny in the dark."
I say all of that to lay out how I'm feeling-sometimes patience just hits me like a bunny in the dark....
Even if patience is something I know I need or want, the delivery of it doesn't always feel good. Patience isn't something we just acquire; it's more like an on-the-job-training situation.
This past year has been so awesome, and I can't believe it's already been a year since I've graduated college (but at the same time that it's only been a year....my how time flies). Thinking back to my life this time a year ago, I was soooooo stressed about what I would do for a job. Fortunately, the Lord has blessed me with TWO great jobs, and I am almost done paying off my student loans (can I get an AMEN??).
Even with those two jobs and things going seemingly well, I am still at a loss for where I want to go next. The planning side of me has been freaking out the past few months, but it has been growing me in all kinds of new ways when it comes to trusting the Lord.
So my future is still about as clear as mud, but I'm learning to take it one step at a time because that's all I can do right now. I know that the Lord has placed dreams on my heart for a reason, and in due time, He will make it clear as to how those dreams will come to fruition.
Patience has indeed hit me like a bunny in the dark, but I am learning to embrace it because one the lights are turned on the the whole plan is eventually revealed, I know it will have been worth the wait.
[Yes, we were college students, but sometimes you just need the comfort of a stuffed animal...]
So I picked a white rabbit as my stuffed animal. When I was trying to decide what to name it, I was apparently struggling with patience (who knew), so I creatively named her Patience.
Fast forward to when Holly Curry was spending the night with me in my dorm room junior year. We would drag my futon mattress into my room, so one of us could sleep on the bed and one on the futon mattress. While I can't recall the story exactly, I'm pretty sure as we were up late talking, and at one point I asked Holly to toss Patience to me.
I'm sitting on the futon mattress in the dark, just waiting for Holly to hand it to me. Next thing I know, I'm being smacked in the face with a stuffed bunny.
Needless to say, I didn't really think that one through :]
Anyways, after we had a good laugh about it, Holly responds with, "Then Patience hit ya like a bunny in the dark."
I say all of that to lay out how I'm feeling-sometimes patience just hits me like a bunny in the dark....
Even if patience is something I know I need or want, the delivery of it doesn't always feel good. Patience isn't something we just acquire; it's more like an on-the-job-training situation.
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This past year has been so awesome, and I can't believe it's already been a year since I've graduated college (but at the same time that it's only been a year....my how time flies). Thinking back to my life this time a year ago, I was soooooo stressed about what I would do for a job. Fortunately, the Lord has blessed me with TWO great jobs, and I am almost done paying off my student loans (can I get an AMEN??).
Even with those two jobs and things going seemingly well, I am still at a loss for where I want to go next. The planning side of me has been freaking out the past few months, but it has been growing me in all kinds of new ways when it comes to trusting the Lord.
So my future is still about as clear as mud, but I'm learning to take it one step at a time because that's all I can do right now. I know that the Lord has placed dreams on my heart for a reason, and in due time, He will make it clear as to how those dreams will come to fruition.
Patience has indeed hit me like a bunny in the dark, but I am learning to embrace it because one the lights are turned on the the whole plan is eventually revealed, I know it will have been worth the wait.
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