Important Life Lessons - #1

I've learned a lot over the past few months. Some of it's made it into big long posts here, and a lot of it hasn't. The stuff that hasn't probably isn't going to, either, right now. So, I'm gonna try shorter posts.

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I used to think that being patient meant twiddling one's thumbs until whatever it is that one is waiting for happens. I was mistaken. What I have discovered is that it really means putting the one thing on hold, and instead doing something else that's important. Sometimes the thing you think has to be first and foremost really doesn't, and something else that's less obvious does. It may not makes sense, and it may not seem nearly as important or opportune as whatever it is you want to do, but later on you discover that God really did have a plan and agenda, and it worked out even better than you could have imagined.

So, if you find yourself frustrated by the brick wall you keep running into, check and see if God isn't actually giving you opportunity to do something else you might never have been able to do otherwise, and, if He is, exercise patience by leaving he first thing in His hands and going and doing the second one. You'll discover, as I did, that His plans are as amazing as they are unexpected.