Patience is a VIRTUE!!!

Patience is definently something God is trying to teach me lately. Let's see I want to be a youth intern, but i have to wait on that as well as being a Younglife leader, because I'm not quite old enough. Also God has blessed my voice with such potential, but sometimes its just so hard to wait on the potential to become reallity. Then there is waiting to date the guy i like, but I know that I need to be patient and wait for God's timing, but sometimes I feel like God's timing isn't fast enough!! lol

All in all though I know in the end it will ALL be sooo incredibly worth it!! I have never had much patience for anything and I think that has hindered my walk with God for so long. Also with being patient, I have put things such as my dreams for my future- getting married, having kids, being a choir director and or hopefully someday being a stay at home mom, and being possibly a girl's minister at a church in the way of totally focusing on God and what he wants me to be doing right now this very minute of my life. I heard this verse the other day that has totally stuck with me since I read it:

"I waited patiently for the Lord; he turned to me and heard my
cry. He lifted me
out of the slimy pit, out of mud and mire; he set my feet
on a rock and gave me
a firm place to stand." Psalms 40: 1-2

These verses really got me thinking. Even though I seem to always cry out to God I never seem to just be patient and see what he will do in me and my life around me. So I have started to really just trust God and know that all will be well in the end. God can do so much more through me when I just step back and give him the reigns. Just as he did in Japan God is continually ruining me each day, so that he can be in control of my life!

Its definently a work in progress. I would love to say I'm all healed and now I am just a patient person who only has eyes for her Lord, but I know it takes work for me to become more patient and fully give myself to God, but I am sooo ready to take up the challenge. I am very thankful to all of my friends who are trying to keep me accountable by reminding me God is in control and that he has great plans for me and that his timing is perfect. I am so excited to see what God will continue to do in my life in the days ahead!!! Glory to God!!