Patience

"Patience- steadfast despite opposition, difficulty, or adversity"

At the beginning of the year, which I know wasn't that long ago, Pastor Jimmy Knott preached about "a word of the year." His being encouragement. Now I was sitting next to my good friend Michal Lynn and we gave each other puzzled looks and both wrote.. "word of the year?? seriously?" in our notes. Neither of us had ever heard of this "Word of the Year" business and too say the least, we were thrown for a loop. So I started to really think of what my word for 2011 should be. I wrote down a few options (self control, patience, focus, and trust) and after narrowing it down and listening to God, patience seemed to be the only one that really kept hitting me (Thanks God, he can be so rude some times!) If you have ever been to church you know the running joke about asking God for patience so I was a little worried about why this was my word... Now I consider myself a very patience person and so do all of my peers so I couldn't understand why God would wanted my word to be patience! Well, to be honest, I didnt give my word much thought after finally figuring it out. But today as I was going through my note book for church, doing my homework for RG (returning to the garden) and writing a letter to Levi, it dawned on me (light bulb). God was giving me a little hint that this year I would need patience with Him and the Marine Corp to get me through to August. That might be somewhat selfish but I felt God telling me "hellloooo Jenny, are you getting it now?!" So now that Ive had my moment, I just wanted to share my "Word of the Year" and maybe youll start thinking of yours!