Patience

LORD,
I need patience! I am focused on my own agenda and priorities, and I get impatient when life doesn't go the way I want it to. Remind me that there is more to life than maintaining a schedule. Open my eyes to your perspective, Lord, so I can have peace, no matter the circumstances.

*** We also pray that you will be strengthened will all his glorious power so you will have all the endurance and patience you need. COLOSSIANS 1:11 ***

My sister told me once many years ago, " The Lord doesn't give us patience when we ask for it. He gives us opportunities to exercise it." Very wise words that I now share with other moms. when I was still a new mom and starting to pull out my hair ;) ..... I would often pray for patience. I didn't want to be a MOMZILLA with babyzillas running around. I wanted to be and feel like the moms on the covers of magazines. Baby on the hip basket of clean laundry on the other with the other two were well behaved and getting along. No matter how much I prayed, I wasn't going to get things the way I wanted. Right away and right in my eyes. I had to face the fact that there were going to be many days ( 75% of the time) that I would not leave or arrive on time, that I was blessed if we all made it out of the house fully clothed and arrived alive to our destination. Feeling rushed and always worried about " THE SCHEDULE" meant never stopping and appreciating the hecticness for what it truly is, LIFE! I stopped worrying so much about all the little things and exercised more patience with my little ones and took the time to watch and remember all the little things that I might have overlooked being in such a stressfull state of HURRY, NOW, and CAN'T WAIT.

"The opportunity of patience brings appreciation."-T inspired by C.M.