Do you know anyone that is patient? I mean the wait and not worry type? Yeah… me neither. I don’t know anyone that falls into this category completely; only at certain times and it usually doesn’t involve small children or going to WalMart.
Well this is my word for 2020. Every thing I have done, every person I have talked with, every project I have worked on I have heard the same chorus like a bad track on repeat. Patience. “Can you just have a little patience?” “Why can you not have a bit of patience?” “I think if you will just have some patience with this, it will work out.” Or my personal favorite: “Why can’t you just let things be and see how it goes?”
My question right back is always the most mature question any nearly 50 yr old woman can ask: “Why…?”
- why is this necessary
- why do I have to endure
- why can’t anyone make a decision
- why must I be the one asking all the freaking questions
And yet here we are. Patience.
Let me tell you a couple of items:
- it isn’t a virtue
- it doesn’t discriminate about my time or anyone else’s for that matter
- it is consistent
- … and it is boring… why? Because it implies waiting. w a i t i n g.
I don’t like waiting.
It is boring. I feel like I don’t have anything to do because I am waiting on the next thing. I realize this is going to be a long lesson, and of course, I want to learn it all by Jan 2nd so I can get on with my life. All this waiting… Phshshsssh… I may explode by the end of January. If northeastern Oklahoma goes up in a mushroom cloud, you know it was me: man, I hate mushrooms.
In all seriousness. There have been a couple of items that I will make note of and write on my bathroom mirror.
- Patience does not equal complacency
- Waiting does not have to equal stagnation
- Slow changes are the ones that last forever
It has been a bit since I have had a yearly hashtag too. Drum roll please:
#StewardTheNow2020
More to come, please be patient. God says he is doing a work in me and that he will see it through till completion. (Philippians 1:6). That, my friends, is some serious patience.
Dreaming in Paisley 