Patience...

Patience is not the ability to wait, but the ability to keep a good attitude while waiting. I have to admit, I'm getting antsy, I don't always have a good attitude....I'm getting tired of waiting on our house to sell. Now, don't get me wrong, I know it is all tin God's time and what His will is, but I'm growing weary. Many of you may say, well, you've only had your house on the market 3 weeks! Yes, 3 weeks! That's too long for me. Some of us are living in the RV and some of us are living in the house. Why? Well, the little ones make a mess, put their hands on the walls, walk in with dirty shoes, etc. I don't have time to clean the carpet, wipe down walls and all of that each day. We have to be ready for showings at any time. I can't have the house look like that. It's hard enough on those days we have showings or open houses. Takes me 3 hours to get the cats taken care of and set up in the RV, clean their room, clean the bathrooms, pick up, vacuum and mop the house and get everyone ready to leave including the dog. I lose my patience on open house days. I just can't remember that I need to be patient, not just with everyone around me but with myself.

I know that one day this will all be behind us and we can look back and laugh (hopefully). For now though, it's a struggle of patience. We followed God's plan for us and it was moving so fast and it all fell together perfectly and now it's stalled. Then we wonder and then we correct ourselves. We know it's the devil making us second guess the plans that God has laid out for us. There have been many signs pointing us in this direction, and we are so happy about it. We have to have faith that this "stagnant" time will too pass. Maybe there is still something for us to do here, maybe we still have some unfinished business, maybe it needs to be the right time for our oldest son before we leave. We are not sure of the reason, we just keep praying that in His time we will ALL be ready. We just need to learn more patience.