Inspiration

                Today I would like to share with you a story about myself. This story is one of the main reasons I chose to blog about Patience. It has done a lot to shape me into the person that I am today. It has also given me the ability to view life differently and has surprisingly helped me out with many other things that I have had to go through.  So here goes the story that inspired my blog: A few years ago, I met this guy. I never really talked to him because our circles didn’t rotate in the same vicinity you could say. I go to a private school and he’s homeschooled so there was no way for our path ever really crossing but they did. It just so happened that his older brother played sports for our school so he did the same. At the end of ninth grade during softball/baseball season we started talking as friends but it was nothing really just friendly conversation so I thought nothing of it. Summer came and went then sophomore year was upon us and we started talking more and more. Turns out he’s everything I have ever wanted in a guy. He’s smart, sweet, funny, cute, and extremely tall! But I think the thing that attracted me the most to him was his godly testimony and how good he was. If this all wasn’t enough to make it clear to me that he was the person I wanted to be, than the way he made me just want to be a better person in general made it crystal clear. BUT with all great stories is a hardship of some sort’s, right? Okay not always but in this story there is as much as I wish there didn’t have to be.  So this “hardship” of ours might not seem very “hard” but to me at the time and even still to this day it is. His parents, who are truly great people and I really do like them, have this rule for their home and it is that none of their boys are allowed to date till they are eighteen years of age. This doesn’t seem like that big of deal especially compared to life and how long it is but for me, a sixteen year old girl at the time; it was a very big deal.  It was a challenge for me because he was the first guy I ever seriously liked and I didn’t want something as small as that come between us and not let us be together eventually. So after some things happened, I just told myself and him that I would wait till he’s eighteen to date him.  At the time I didn’t know how hard it would be especially when I had to go to school each and every day and see all of my friends and other people with their boyfriend/girlfriends. I'm not even going to lie some days, okay most days, I was really depressed and bitter because I wanted to be with the guy I liked and I couldn’t. But looking back now I know that was one of the things the devil wanted to use against me and make me want to give up on us, or become bitter, angry, and depressed about the entire situation.

                I am so grateful that I didn’t let it get to me and I am so grateful to God that He gave me the strength and wisdom I needed to get through those difficult and confusing days.  I know God wants the best for us and I think that he put this very special guy in my life because he’s suppose to be there.  He has been able to help me get through so many things and I know God knew that I would need him to help me get through them and I am so grateful for that. He is such a wonderful, amazing man and I am so glad that I was privilege enough to meet him and have him become a part of my life. Throughout this entire journey together he has just been the best person about it all. He always encourages me with scripture and shows me different ways I can look at it so it helps me understand it more clearly. One of the verses that encourages and helps us is Romans 8:28 and it says: “And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to His purpose.”  This verse definitely gives me hope. And this entire journey has and still is teaching me so much about myself and about how to deal and get through hardships.

 This guy I speak of turns eighteen in six months and twenty-one days. Yes, it still is a whiles away but I know that we will get there. We have already made it this far; so six months is like nothing for us. LOL. I am just so excited I really cannot wait till that day! So having patience with things is a good thing because when the waiting is up your reward will be extremely amazing and worthwhile and you might just learn some great life lessons along the way.  Well I hope that this cleared up any questions one might have had about the reasoning for this blog besides the fact that this is an English assignment. (By far the most awesome assignment ever!) I hope you enjoyed! I will definitely be in touch and hopefully an encouragement to all! Have a blessed week! And God bless! J