Patience

(Posted by Rubia)

Throughout my whole life, from a very young age and still now, I am learning patience. I have always had to have patience with my siblings, for example. There are many things that God has used to teach me patience. But that did not seem to be enough for me.

Three things all of a sudden poured down on me all at once, which have really been teaching me patience. Here are the three things: waiting for the house renovations to be over (from the flood); trying to train our new dog, Mikey, to behave; and waiting for the snow to go away.

I have been waiting, and waiting, and waiting, for the snow to melt. But I guess God is leaving it there until I learn a good lesson! :-) And you know…you can’t expect spring to come so quickly here in Michigan. :-) The snow is starting to melt again, but sometimes it comes back.

Mikey is getting along well. He is a pretty fast learner. Being young as he is, he still needs to work on some training. But he will eventually get the big idea.

And the flood problem is almost over! We will be leaving our house again. But I trust that this will be the last time. Even if it isn’t, I will still try to exercise self-control, and continue learning patience.

I have been learning a lot of life-lessons. And with that, I have made some new decisions of my own. I am learning that everything God does is for a reason. And we have to accept it, even if we never figure out the reason.

I also know that you never stop learning!

(photography by Roma)