Patience

I'm  struggling. I'm  impatient. I'm  in  a  rut. I'm  learning.  I'm  growing. I'm happy.  I'm  being  challenged,  really  challenged  in  ways  I  haven't  been  in  a  very  long time! 

It's sometimes hard to see. But there is so much beauty  in  this quarter-life crisis!
Tonight, I found this! 

And it's like I can hear God whispering,

"Patience, Leigh. Patience. Not just to find that knee-popping, romantic, I've-got-your-back, over-the-moon kind of love. Not just that. No. Patience, Leigh, with everything in your life. Your future job. Your future car. Your future life. Your future apartment. Your future husband. Your future children. Your Your future salary. Leigh, your future is only known to Me. Be still and know I am God.

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Here' are all of my favorite lines:

Stop telling me that there are no good men left. There are exceptions to everything, but it's much easier to find a good man when you're not swearing against them all.


You Don't Have To Choose Between What You Want and What You Need. And if you are dating who you need but not what you want, chances are you don't actually know what you need. Because what you need is a man who is everything you need AND want!


Give it back to God. What I mean is that your future marriage will fail and fail hard if you don't put it in God's hands, so you're much better off learning how to keep your heart and someone else's in God's hand while you're still dating. Or still single. This isn't about changing things, it's about deciding to want what God wants and believing with your body, mind and soul that what he wants is good.


No more justification, logic, thought, giving-it-more time, excuses, or trying-to-work-it-out. Close your eyes and rip off the band-aid. Today.

You're single because the timing just isn't right. For him, or for you, or for one of any 238,520 possible life variables. The truth is that everyone is broken. And you don't need "fixing." You just need God, and the life He's already got planned for you. And God has a life-altering, fireworks-on-display, crazy-love plan for you - which will come precisely when he wants it to.


"You must run at the same pace. Otherwise, you will either slow the other down, or be slowed down." Life is too short.
Date a man who is crazy about you. Puh-lease.

If you don't respect him, it's not going to work. That's it. If you don't brag about him, respect the decisions he's making, love the man he is, and trust the way he sees the world, you'll end up with a mess of problems that will raise up a mess of pain.

Stop thinking about how to make it work, or how to find the man you want to marry. Tell God it's His responsibility, and be done with it. Make the mental decision to trust God stubbornly for this. And live it out.

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I liked it a lot. Clearly.