Lord, Teach Me to Be Patient....

I looked at Jessica's instagram  from showerofroses.blogspot.com tonight and read this:

"Lord, teach me to be patient-

with life, with people, and with myself.

I sometimes try too hard to hurry things

along too much, and I push for answers

before the time is right.  Teach me to trust

Your sense of timing rather than my own

and to surrender my will to Your greater 

and wiser plan.  Help me to let life unfold

slowly, like the small rosebud whose petals

unravel bit by bit, and remind me that in 

hurrying the bloom along, I destroy the 

bud and the beauty therein."

I needed that reminder.  Thank you, Lord.

Old photo of us on our trip to Cali when I was pregnant with Theodore.