First of all, it's about time someone posts something new on this blog, eh?
OK, so about time.
Time is so very precious. I'm learning this the older I get that time is one resource it is incredibly wrong to waste. I speak as if I'm an old person, and, though, I'm not old I often feel old. Though I'm still young to most people and will be young to most people for quite a few years yet, I must think of how precious is the little time I have left. In the broad scheme of things, I don't have much time on this earth. And so I find myself often wanting things now...I want to have a car...now. I want my license...now. I want to graduate high school..now. I want to know what I'll go to college for...now. I want to know who I'll marry...now. And yet with all of these wants, with all of my knowing that time is short, with all of my wishing for tomorrow's gifts today...I hear in my spirit, the still small voice saying "patience, Kate. Be patient." When I start getting anxious about my future, I keep getting told in so many words by so many people to "just wait, be patient, it'll all work out." I know this is God's wish for me, for me to learn patience. It is one of the gifts of the Spirit, and so I desire it too. It's just that I'm not a naturally patient or quiet or stand-by and watch kind of person... Being told to be patient it makes go "argh!" And, yet, I'm trying...I know that waiting on the Lord is an exercise of faith. I'm trying to rest in the knowledge that He has my time in His hands. He will provide all my needs in his time... My wishing for tomorrow's gifts today is a waste of today's time, a gift so very precious.
