The past couple of weeks the Lord has been teaching me patience and testing it as well. Throughout the past two weeks, we have been adding a bathroom to a house and cleaning up the yard for one of the locals. The whole process involved installing a septic system and building the bathroom itself onto the house. Then we leveled and cleaned the entire yard. With my personality, I’m all about doing it right the first time and trying to be the most efficient. During the process, it seemed like they would always choose the harder way of doing things. This would test me because in my head I felt like I knew an easier way to do whatever it was. It would also seem that when we would finish something we would get told to change/redo what we just finished. So throughout this experience, I believe the Lord was trying to teach all of us patience, especially me. I feel like I struggle with patience in certain aspects of life, the main one is trying to complete a task such as this one. I believe that this was the Lord teaching me to be a good follower and just show love instead of trying to show my way
Proverbs 16:32
James 1:3
Wow.. we all need to learn how to show love and not our way!!
Proud of you for choosing the hard thing
Don’t we all need to grow in this area of our lives. Thank you for the reminder that our way isn’t alway best. Growing in love and being willing to submit our ways to Him IS the bigger picture.
Patience is something most of us struggle with at times. We don’t always know why we are put into situations and the struggle is real. I am so thankful to you for sharing your experiences. I love that you’re following your heart and loving others thru your experiences. I look firward to following your journey!
So proud of you Daegan! The Lord teaches me patience everyday through my children lol But the earlier you learn it, the better you’ll be in years to come. Love ya!
Daegan, I loved this. So honest and so true. We All have this struggle. Love you and miss you!!
Emily
Hey buddy! Absolutely nailed it. I have similar struggles and am always trying to interfere with allowing processes and issues play out. Patience can also be rewarding when we can tap into it. Thanks for sharing. Keep doing such a great job!
“Show love instead of showing my way.” SO GOOD. Especially when we encounter the Costa Rican way…I need to remember this! Keep preaching, pastor Daegan! 😉
I love how this tested you because I know that you want to kinda control things like that and I still love you I hope u will not figure out who I am
Man, I really appreciate your honesty and willingness to be open about this struggle.
I also struggle sometimes with just being patient and loving people through the process(especially on the road….lol).
I love you, Bro!