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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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dear family:

we just sat in the woods, listened to God, and became herbivores over the weekend. i dont know how to explain it. i dont know how to process it. what a sweet and beautifully intense four days. if you have any wisdom on what God showed you or what your lesson was or the sermon God was preaching to you through the weekend, please - share.

i thoroughly appreciate my refrigerator and bed - and the fact that andy towers can no longer scream in the middle of the night and cause me to wet my sleeping bag - ever again.

Vulnerable

I HATE THIS WORD…”vulnerable”.  Even as I say it thoughts of Jr. High and even High School coming flooding into my mind.  I was always small for my age in school.  Even worse, I was never the most popular kid in school…not even close.  I was scared to go in the bathrooms at school.  I had pictures of under-classmen stuffed in toilets flying through my head.  I had thoughts of bullies inserting my face into the towel dispenser.  I wasn’t safe even in the halls.  Many times I was pushed into the lockers as I travelled the halls or called names by people far cooler than I.  It seemed like everywhere I went there was trouble.  My coaches were often disappointed with me, or the team, for our performance in competition.  My “great” friends and BFFs came and went.  At home things were certainly not ideal.  My parents and I fought often.

(Fun devotion so far, huh?)

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