Life Lessons: Patience, Humility, and Ex-Convicts

Well I'm really becoming quite a failure at blogging. Months seem to go by before I get time to sit down and caught everyone up on my life. The normal things are keeping me busy...work, church, and attempting to have a social in between. The past few weeks have taught me some big life lessons.

1) Patience -- So, I'm not the most patient person in the world and it has been a constant battle for me all my life to keep my tongue under control and not get angry about stuff that doesn't really matter. The past two weeks have forced me to dive into the struggle with patience head first. I got to hire a new part time employee to work up front with me and my other full time girl. I interviewed a few people with my supervisor and we both decided Patty was the pick of the litter. Well....it's been two weeks and let's just say maybe she wasn't the pick that we thought she was going to be. Normally after training someone for two weeks they are pretty self-sufficent and can be left alone to run the place. Patty is no where near that phase...it's like each day we start all over from the beginning and she doesn't remember how to do anything!! I about went over the edge a couple times this week but God supplied enough grace and patience to make it through. I've decided however that I'm not sure i could ever homeschool my kids. I can't imagine dealing with that everyday...my mom is a saint!!!

2. Humility -- This week started with me a bit on edge do to the first life lesson. When I get stressed I tend to get a bit crabby and short with those around me. I had come to take some of those feeling out on a girl at work. We don't get along that well to begin with so she was the most likely target for my crabbiness. Come Wednesday I was sitting in church listening to Pastor Jim give the message and God started convicting me of my bitterness and contentiousness toward the girl at work. The whole message was about anger, bitterness, and proper use of authority...how humiliating!!! I felt really bad about how i had been treating this girl and using my authority to be on edge with her when really most of time she has nothing to do with my stress. Thursday morning came I had to go talk to this girl and apologize. It was one of the most humbling thing I have had to do....I don't really like this girl and I wanted to just sweep it under the rug but God called me out on it and so there i was apologizing...God is good! I'm still struggling to keep the right attitude with this girl but in time maybe I'll get it down.

3. Ex-Convicts -- Last Sunday at church i had a very interesting morning. I started the day like any other Sunday. Got ready and headed off to chruch early to help get the kids stuff all set up for Sunday School. The morning was going great and then I met the ex-convict! There is this guy at church who just moved to the area and was coming with his parents. He apparently had seen me the weeks before and decided he wanted to date me. He boldly walked up to me on Sunday and asked if I would want to go out this weekend. We thankfully I knew from a friend of mine that this guy had just gottent out of jail and moved here to try and get his life worked out. Big red flag for the dating situation. I felt pretty uneasy the whole time he was talking to me cause he just was kinda creepy and kept giving me weird looks. I declined his oh so generous offer of a date and hoped that he would just walk away. He did try to push the issue a bit but then finally gave up and left. I'm hoping that he won't keep pushing the issue. Believe me I would love to go on a date but an ex-convict is not really who i'm looking for!!

So those are just a few of the life lessons I've been learning. I would say I would write more soon but I'll be honest my track records isn't going to back that up. I'll write more the next time a get a chance!!