Loving The Wait
I've met very few people in life who can openly admit to being impatient. I never considered myself an impatient person but that was probably too generous an opinion of myself. Nothing brings patience into perspective quite like waiting for something you really want. Then and only then do you realise just how much life can try you. Someone told me recently "good things take time and happen naturally", such plain words were so hard to swallow because although I agreed with it in theory, I petulantly wondered why things couldn't happen immediately. "Ain't nobody got time for that" has increasingly become a way of life. "But do not forget this one thing, dear friends: With the Lord a day is like a thousand years, and a thousand years are like a day." 2 Peter 3:8 This is one of those verses I don't know how to feel about. Some days it feels ever so literal. At some point iin life each of us will be conscious of the passing of time; with ea