Patience Revisited

Last week I wrote a post about my children and how God uses them to increase my patience.

In case it came across the wire that I was saying "I FINALLY HAVE PATIENCE," I wanted to revisit this.

I wrote:

"And today I heard, "You must have a lot of patience." And this was from a random woman who quickly breezed by me on the side walk.

I must say, that last quote made me wonder if my patience has indeed increased over the past 8 years. I would say that I have A LOT more now that I have 4 kids and I do love how God uses my family to grow me in areas that I am weakest - such as patience."

This means:
This means....I am weak in the area of patience and I believe that God is giving me many kids to help grow me in my weakest area. My patience has increased, but only because God is refining me in that area because of my kids. In no way was I saying I am patient. But I am MORE patient than I was 8 years ago. It is interesting to me that people think just because I have 4 children that I am automatically a patient person. It is BECAUSE OF THEM that I am being stretched daily. There is no other option but to develop in patience when raising four children (or 1 child for that matter).

I still struggle daily, but can see the growth that God is allowing through this sharp refining. And I praise Him for BLESSING ME while REFINING ME!

IN NO WAY HAVE I ARRIVED!