Wednesdays Words | Patience

Today I’m trying a new link-up today called Wednesday’s Words. Today I’m focusing on the word…
Patient.
It’s a word that people often use to describe me. I’m patient with how I interact and deal with people. I’m patient with the high school students I work with. For the most part I am a patient person. Except lately patience is something I’ve been struggling with.
\\I graduate in 5 weeks. I’m ready to be done. However, I don’t know what I’m doing or where I’m going after graduation and it’s starting to wear on me. 
\\I’ve applied for one job and haven’t heard anything about the next step yet. Otherwise, there aren’t any openings to apply for.
\\I went to a foot doctor yesterday. I have a stress fracture in my left foot. Ice + 3-4 weeks rest is what the doctor ordered.
Those happen to be the things testing my patience lately. This season of waiting has been a common theme on my blog lately, but I guess this is just where I am in my life.
I want to know if I’ll have a job after graduation or if I need to start applying at the mall. I want to know a timeline for the job I applied for. I want my foot to heal so I can run and jump again.
I want all of those things right now.

But the world doesn’t work on my timing. God doesn’t work on my timing. Everything happens in God’s timing.
Rest for my foot has to happen if I want it to heal so I can run/jump again. Being an active person makes it really hard for me to take a break. Especially, during a time where I’ve been really improving and increasing my weight in CrossFit. I have to be patient with my body’s need to heal and let my body get the rest it needs.
I only have a short window of time left as a college student who doesn’t have to face the real world of being an adult yet. I only have a few weeks left with these students and teachers who I have grown to love and look forward to seeing. I am where I am right now for a reason. I need to choose to be present in my day to day life instead of constantly wishing for the future to arrive.
This time reminds me of the Life Lived Beautifully study I was doing earlier this fall on Ruth. Ruth went through several times of waiting and the future turned out better for her than she ever could have expected. 

Show me the right path, O Lord; point out the road for me to follow. Lead me by your truth and teach me for you are the God who saves me. all day long I put my hope in you.

Psalm 24:4-55

I need to embrace this time of waiting as I wait to see the next step God has planned out for me. It will be greater than what my little blonde brain can imagine. Because I know that God causes everything to work together for the good of those who love God and are called according to his purpose for them. Romans 8:28
I need to relinquish my desire to know and to control to God.  I need to be content with where I am now. I need to embrace the days of student teaching I have left instead of letting them passively slip by. I need to give my body the rest that it needs. I need to live with a little risk instead of playing it safe with having everything set out.
I need to be patient.

Are you patient? How do you deal with times that test it?