Be patient and persist . . .

Patience and Persistence are the two words I heard Monday morning as I lay in bed. It has been a busy few weeks. The many hours outside gardening and landscaping and just plain having fun with the kids have left lots of things undone inside the house. You know the list, laundry, dirty floors, bathrooms, bills and to top it off the dishwasher missed half the dishes on Sunday, so I was left with lots more dishes to wash. Plus the Christian Business Directories came in a few weeks ago, which just is a lot of work to coordinate. Anyway, I was feeling very overwhelmed to say the least. And I think that morning in bed was God telling me to be patient and persist through the mountains I saw before me. Slowly some things are getting done and all week now those same two words (patience and persistence) have been running through my mind and keeping me sane!

This morning, I remembered something God had shown me about patience last fall. It was in one of my lessons for Son Harbor and the teacher portion encouraged you to think about areas you needed to be patient. My first thoughts went towards situations with the kids, like Grace whining for a glass of milk or the chaos of everyone putting their shoes on to go somewhere. But then He showed me the bigger picture of patience. At that time Jim had no job for the summer and I was feeling a little worried about what our future held. But at that moment I knew God was saying be patient in these little things and also the big things of the future. I had never thought about patience in that way. Today I encourage you to find an area in life where you need to be patient.

I do have more posts with pictures and the kids, but everytime I sit down to work on it the computer jams up and I just go to bed instead. I guess I need to be more patient with this too.