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Patience is hard sometimes. Things happen, events come up, obstacles get in the way, it leaves us with a trial of our patience and even our faith. This particular test has been mentioned in many talks I have read and listened to. One particular speaker: Elder Dieter F Uchdorf in his talk Continue in Patience, used this example that was able to truly help me understand how patience is not just waiting for something. A quick explanation of the marshmallow test. A group of children were asked to sit alone in a room with a marshmallow. They can eat it, but if they waited fifteen minutes, they would receive a second marshmallow. 'Some ate it almost immediately." Elder Uchdorf explained in his talk: "others could only wait just a few minutes before giving into temptation" and "by the end, only thirty percent of the children could wait". 30% Perhaps these are just children, but replace that marshmallow with your own desires. Perhaps it is waiting for things to settle, for money to just fall in your hands, to get away from a serious addiction, waiting for the right person to be your future spouse, for your joy to come back from its long absence. I can give many examples, but I think you know what I mean. Stop just waiting for it. Patience is more than waiting. There is a reason why you don't have it now. You are supposed to learn something from it, to grow and when you are ready, 'The time will come'. In another talk by Elder Ulisses Soares in Take Up Our Cross, he says "We must acknowledge that He is aware of each of us and of our needs. It is also necessary to accept the fact that the Lord's timing is different than ours. Sometimes we seek for a blessing and set a time limit for the Lord to fulfill it. We cannot condition our faithfulness to Him by imposing upon Him a deadline for the answers to our desires... We need to trust the Lord enough to be still and know that He is God, that He knows all things, and that He is aware of each of us." I couldn't explain that any better. Elder Uchdorf and Elder Soares really explain the true potential of the power of patience. To have patience is to have diligence, to persistently improve ourselves so that when the time comes, we will be ready. Perhaps it won't be when we feel like we are ready, but when Heavenly Father feels like we are ready. It may be hard, but take that time to strengthen yourself, take that time to further understand why he is having you wait. Don't sit still and wait for it, that is doing nothing. Actively move on and when the time is right. You will receive your second marshmallow. Perhaps what you need is a slap in the face with that very marshmallow. I certainly got one, as I have been anxiously waiting for an important moment in my life to just fall into place. But it hasn't, and I know it won't for a while. Although it's difficult to sink in, I know if I keep serving as I am and trying to grow and strengthen myself that the time will come and it will be glorious. I have understood that it will be more worth it if I patiently endure than if I sat on my hands and waited for the moment to come. Or, instead of sitting on my hands, jumping to it too soon and it falls into disaster. The Time Will Come. Those four words seem to repeat in my head quite often, and if you are struggling with something that is nagging on your patience, keep your focus on the Savior. It is the Lord's timing, not yours. There is a reason for everything. Be strong, hold tight, take the time to strengthen yourself and it will come. It will come when the time is right.
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Kaylee CasuttI have been writing for over eight years now and have been both building to publish my first book and serve as a service-missionary of The Church Of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. Everything I write will contribute to the journey destined I have been striving to find and build. Archives
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