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Something to share on patience.
#2999460 04/17/02 10:54 AM
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I posted this on another thread, but thought that there may be some people who could be helped by this story, so I put it out here for all to see.
************************************************<p>Used to pray for patience all the time. In my young mind, I guess, I was waiting for God to bundle up some patience and insert it into the proper part of my brain. *WRONG!* I kept praying for it, but couldn't understand why I still didn't seem to have any. In the meantime, I was always in the longest, slowest line. I was in the slowest, most backed-up lane. Everything I ordered in the mail got lost. People kept showing up late. I got frustrated, and prayed for more patience. And things kept happening to make me wait.<p>It is easy now to see the loop that I was in. God was teaching me patience by making me wait. I kept praying for more, and kept getting more.<p>In short, be careful what you ask for - God doesn't just give it to you, he teaches it to you. The more reluctant we are to learn, the more teaching we require. What a painful process!
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Another Lesson Learned..... [img]images/icons/wink.gif" border="0[/img]
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<blockquote><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><hr>Originally posted by Takola:
<strong>In short, be careful what you ask for - God doesn't just give it to you, he teaches it to you. The more reluctant we are to learn, the more teaching we require. What a painful process!</strong><hr></blockquote><p>This is even more true for LOVE.
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AMEN brother!
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bump for helpgk
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</font><blockquote><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><hr /><font size="2" face="Verdana, Arial">Originally posted by Happy_Hus:
<strong>[QUOTE]Originally posted by Takola:
[qb]In short, be careful what you ask for - God doesn't just give it to you, he teaches it to you. The more reluctant we are to learn, the more teaching we require. What a painful process!</strong></font><hr /></blockquote><font size="2" face="Verdana, Arial">sho you're right!!! ain't it the truth!!!

<small>[ August 22, 2002, 12:18 PM: Message edited by: idostylin ]</small>

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