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Patience

Patience is stinking hard!!  I don’t know if it has always been this way, but certainly for our generation waiting is just about unacceptable.

The possible list of examples I could make is endless.

Urgent care waiting rooms, the dentist’s office, food at McDonald’s, computer booting up, Christmas day opening presents, end of school, summer vacation, getting driver’s license, finding a boy/girlfriend, learning guitar, sister in the bathroom in the morning, going to college, the weekend, getting your grades back for that big test…and on, and on, and on…

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Rain

It’s been raining for weeks, at least it seems that way to me. Rain is a funny thing. It’s just random drops of water from the sky. It always seems to fall anytime an outdoor event is planned, when you’re at the beach, or when you wash your car. When it rains everyone complains about it because it is an inconvenience, but if it doesn’t rain people complain about that too!

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Family

My family and I take trips every year, and so for this Spring Break my family and I went to Missouri. It was around the 7^th night and it was midnight and none of us were asleep. My dad wanted to do something and we knew that the putt putt course was open. So we went to play putt putt at midnight. We got around to the 4^th hole when the skies opened up and the rain fell hard and fast. We were falling and sliding everywhere, but we kept on playing. It had to be the worst I had ever played, and yet it was the most fun I have ever had. Just seeing the joy on our faces made it all worth it…

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Times of Refreshing

What is the person in front of you doing?  How ‘bout the person to the left or the right?  What do you think about them? As you look at them what thoughts enter your mind?

What are they thinking about you??

Write down what you think they are thinking about you. Take your time. Maybe 10 minutes.  Write it all down.  What do they think about you?

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Strong

Weak and strong…strong and weak.  Strong.  What an amazing word.  It carries so much meaning.  The more I look at it the more possibilities I see in it.

What is ‘strong’?

Write down your thoughts about the word ‘strong’.

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