Growing Patience

Growing Patience   So close, yet so far away so many times. Stop and go, stop and go, stop and go… that’s what I see all the time. My engine loves to lock up regularly just before reaching the next checkpoint. And I tell you, it has been sending me flying through the roof like a bottle rocket almost every time!   I don’t really like having my patience tested like this. I don’t like dangling carrots elevating out of reach when I jump to swipe it. I like carrots, but I want that carrot off the string and in my hand, like now!   It’s moments like these that I used To question whether or not God was laughing at my frustration and misfortune, but I know better now.   My God wants the best of everything for me, but I have to go through these type of things to get what I prayed for. And since I prayed for patience, He is obligated to put me in situations where my patience is tested,     If you wanna learn how to wrestle, you gotta wrestle. If you wanna learn how to skate, you gotta skate If you wanna grow in patience, you have to be put in situations where you need patience the most.   The massively frustrating circumstances I have encountered are needed. Without those I really don’t have the right to expect my patience to grow.