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Have you ever been so perplexed, depressed, frustrated that you can’t even stand to see your negative thoughts put down on paper?
So many thoughts have been swirling in my brain this month as I adjust to a new place and to often perplexing and sometimes unpleasant circumstances. And though writing has typically helped me in the past to plunk those difficult musings on paper as something tangible and therapeutic, lately scribbling anything about my pain and sorrow—even in a journal no one will read—has been something I have been avoiding at all costs.
Why is that? Why do I want to escape from my thoughts? Why do I run away from the pain? Why is it so hard sometimes to face the dross I see God pulling out of me?
Before I came to this season of wilderness, I was excited about change, excited about new, excited about great things God was going to do in and through me. But that was before the realization that change meant I would have to change—not my circumstances, not frustrating people around me, like the slow driver ahead or the thoughtless person in line at the grocery store. No, it meant I would have to change. Read the rest of this entry »
When God doesn’t move as quickly as we would like or expect Him to, we can respond in several different ways.
Ideally, we would graciously accept His patient work on our behalf and remember that He is working behind the scenes and getting us prepared before He does the big reveal and gets us to the next level in our lives.
Yes, but how many of us truly think that way initially?
Typically, we moan or get mad or blame God for being so slow to act. We might even throw our hands up in despair and ask, “What did I do wrong?”
I am guilty of particularly that last response. In fact, I think that question was the exact phrase on my lips just yesterday.
If patience is a virtue, I certainly don’t have much of it! But oh what good can come of having to wait just a little longer. Read the rest of this entry »
