After re-reading my post I had a thought. After watching "Evan Almighty", Brian and I talked a bout one of the lessons we learned from it. Hey, good things can come from Hollywood. After Evan's wife leaves with the kids she is approached by what she thinks is a waiter in a restaurant, who is really God in the movie, and after talking for a minute with God about her prayer He tells her, "When you pray for patience, do you think God just gives you patience, or do you think he gives you opportunities to be patient?" "When you pray to become closer as a family, do you think He makes you closer, or gives you opportunities to grow closer?" (All paraphrased...)
So, when I said at the end of my post that I wish I could just learn my lessons and move on, that's what I was referring to. It's powerful and motivating, but harder said than done, as always. I just want to learn patience and move on, you know, have the experiences, learn from them and then have my kids obey from then on! I know it doesn't work this way, a lot of times b/c we need growth, a lot of times b/c everyone has their own agency. It was just a great lesson to learn, in a way I haven't learned it before. God will give me opportunities to be a good mom, be patient, learn to discipline with love and boundaries, etc. But, I must embrace those opportunities in order for this to work. That's where my flaw lies. I recognize the opportunities, I'm just often too tired to angry to practice that patience... Anyway, had to throw that in there.
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you've already done the hard part.. the hard part is realizing that a change needs to be done. now the rest will come. just be patient. you're awesome.
p.s. i wrote a novel on your awesome post below too.
love, allegra
I've never seen that movie, but those are some good quotes!
like in Womens Conference but a bit modified:
Don't pray for the task to match your patience/ability, but pray for the patience/ability to match your task.
those were great comments...thinking deep with such a funny movie.
I copied your blog colors for the holidays. Hope you don't mind, but I liked your idea. :o)
Love reading your blog! Good to see how you are doing! I loved all the nice themes in the movie Evan Almighty too! The other day a few days after we had watched the movie, we were reading the actual story of Noah and my son said, "No, his name is Baxter!" (The last name of Evan in the movie!)
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