Definition: The capacity to accept or tolerate delay, trouble, or suffering without getting angry or upset
Hello!! I’m sorry for my lack of blogging, it’s been a while since I’ve had time to sit down and write and have the opportunity to post haha, but here I am now in Roi Et Thailand! It’s absolutely beautiful here, and our ministry is incredible. The guys are split off from the rest of the squad for the next two months, doing labor ministry that includes, painting, fish farming, helping with the agriculture project here on site, and many more projects. We are blessed to be staying with two amazing ministry hosts, Peter and Ruth. We are staying on a piece of property called Grace Camp, which has land for camp(s) and has a community church, and many projects that help the community around them. It will be nice for the men to be away for a couple of months to further our relationships with each other and with the Lord, already so much has happened in our team, I can’t wait to see what will happen in the next month. Now about the word patience…
I don’t like this word at all…like at all… especially when it comes to God. It can get so annoying and difficult being patient with God. When I’m bringing my concerns to the Lord over and over again, sometimes it can get tiring. Most of the time I feel like my prayers are bouncing off a huge brick wall and landing back on my lap. But I’ve realized that having patience is actually a fruit of the Spirit (Galatians 5). Recently I have been told through other people that God has told me that I need to remain patient and that my time is coming (like more than 4 people have told me in different ways). So I think its obvious God is telling me that I need to practice patience with him and find the beauty in it. Which now that I think about it is good because even at home I wasn’t the best with patience, I was always anticipating what was coming next and I was never really in the moment. At first, I would think, what kind of God would instruct us to wait on him? Like, that makes no sense to me… but then I realized that waiting is where faith actually becomes necessary. It’s in the waiting and the silence where our faith actually develops and molds us. It’s in the silence that we learn to trust, both in his character and his timing. I might be in a rush for my final destination but God isn’t. So I’m just starting to learn the art of patience.
I hope to be posting more blogs on a normal routine now that I have reliable wifi… so yeah. ALSO, I’M FULLY FUNDED!!! Thank you so much to all of you who have helped me on this journey and who have followed these blogs. It means so much to me… thank you so much. God is good
10-4 Parker
I really like that line . . . “I might be in a rush for my final destination, but God isn’t”. That should be a famous quote. Just the opposite of the now, now,. . . more, more, . . . faster, faster culture we have to live in in the US.
Holy Spirit is doing some deep work in you, and yes . . . It takes time.
Miss you, love you.
Oh Parker, such good good words!! Refreshing and so good for the soul, thank you! So exciting hearing of all God is doing in you and through you!
I encourage you to blog more, you’re a great writer! Thx for sharing this…I lack patience so so much!