Patience is something that I learned about when I was just a little girl, and I am still learning how to do today. I thought that when I had forty milking goats that I would milk by hand, or training heifers and cows to lead on a halter for the show ring I had mastered the art of patients. I could spend hours working with the animals with no improvements and be completely happy, or the goat could kick over the whole bucket of milk that would spill all over me but I would just think it could always be worse. My mom always told me growing up that I had a lot of patience because the animals rarely made me crazy, but now I am beginning to realize that it was not that I was patient with the animals it was because I loved spending my time with the animals! Today I do not always have the patience that I would like to have. I don’t particularly like being stuck in a car for a long time because there are things I need to get done and I want to move around. I do not have patience when I am stuck in traffic or I cannot get somewhere as fast as I want (someone should really invent a teleporter!). When I was younger, and we would take family vacations driving to Florida, my parents always said we had a van so that us four girls could wrestle on the backseat play games and move aroun, and then they wouldn’t have to deal with us annoyingly asking if we were there yet! I am not a master of patience, and I pray that one day I will be able to be patient for every different situation!
There are many things in our lives that we want and we aren’t very patient for. We can get annoyed by simple things like slow walkers, waiting for someone to call/text back, watching commercials, traffic jams, having to retell a story (Okay maybe that’s not annoying in my family), but these are a few of the millions of things that people can get annoyed by. By not being patient we are letting someone or something steal our joy from us. We need to be patient, maybe take a breath, and know that it is okay to slow down every once in a while in this fast-paced world. As Christians we are traveling trough this life to our final destination of heaven or for Jesus to come back. In the bible it says, “For the revelation awaits an appointed time; it speaks of the end and will not prove false. Though it linger, wait for it; it will certainly come and will not delay”-Habakkuk 2:3. Just as Chrsit’s return is waiting for a certain time, things in each of ourl lives are waiting for a certain time to happen. Do not let being impatient steal your joy throughout your life, but instead slow down take a breath and be happy to be exactly where you are!
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