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.
Copyright © Evan Mitchell | Year Posted 2017
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