I feel like one of my pregnant daughters. "When are you due?" "Haven't you had that baby yet?" "Boy, you are sure getting fat." (Now you better be ready to fun fast if you say that one.) (Or this one.) "Are you having twins or triplets?"
We get the same thing. "Where are you going on your mission." "Have you had your interview yet?" "Have your gotten your call yet?" "Where do you want to go?"
These things, mostly, are out of our hands. When a pre-mortal spirit decides to come into mortality, or when our Father sends him to leave that life and enter this one, it is something that we do not control. Where we are going, or when is also out of our control.
When "friends" ask those questions, we just say, not yet, or she says, one of these days. I am due.... These are lessons in patience I would suggest. So I am not the only one learning patience. I guess it is a pretty universal lesson that has to be learned by all of Father's children. Though He chooses to teach it in a different way, He is teaching this concept.
When one is waiting for a raise at work, when one is waiting for an interview and then waiting for an offer, when one is waiting for income tax returns to arrive, when one is waiting for the Second Coming, all these things develop patience.
I am so grateful for a Father who has patience with me and my impatience. Some day I hope to graduate from the school of Patience, get my diploma and hang it out so everyone can see it and say, "Finally, he learned."
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