Be Patient

Joel doesn't like to wait, so I will say "be" and then he'll say "patient" when I am trying to get him his food or when we are checking out at the grocery store and he is wailing that he "needs it", whatever it may be a chip, a toy, etc. The thing that hit me today is that I am not much more patient than Joel is when it comes to what I want.

We are ending our time here in Hays in a few days. Our time here has been great, but I really miss home. It is weird to think that we won't have cause to come back here for a while. I definitely won't miss the greenish brown carpet or sharing a room with Joel, but I have been so grateful for this opportunity. We have met such wonderful people and we have grown to truly love them. I can't express how much I feel that God was totally in this process of Justin getting his masters. The way that it worked out to be able to live in the old parsonage for the cost of utilities for not one, but two summers is amazing. They have been trying to sell the old parsonage, but it hasn't sold yet. My conclusion has been this: God's timing is at work. He planned this, knowing how hard it would have been for either Justin and I to be apart or for us to financially afford to live here in Campus housing (about $750 a month) on top of our morgage. This whole two summer experience has helped me to see even more how God will provide....in his time. So I'm going to try to "beeeee patient" with all of the things that I feel like I "need".

Colossians 1:10-12: " And we pray this in order that you may live a life worthy of the Lord and may please him in every way: bearing fruit in every good work, growing in the knowledge of God, being strengthened with all power according to his glorious might so that you may have great endurance and patience, and joyfully giving thanks to the Father, who has qualified you to share in the inheritance of the saints in the kingdom of light."