Have you ever prayed for patience? Have you ever heard of the saying, “Be careful for what you pray for!”?

Well, this past week, I’ve had a large lesson on patience and faith and humility.

As I’ve written in other posts, I love working out. Especially weight lifting.

Last week I had the unfortunate event of breaking my arm during one of the workouts.

You would think that, that would be the worst part of the event. And at the begining, so did I!

I was so wrong!

Two days after I broke my arm, I realized how much I was going to need help. Even with some of the most basic of tasks.

I have had to ask for help to open my water, to get dressed, to get something to eat, to buckle up in the car, to bath & even to put on deodorant.

I am beyond blessed that through it all, I’ve had an amazing husband, children, parents & friends that have been more than happy to help. 

And I can’t complain in that area.

Let me tell you where my lesson on patience comes in.

If I’m hungry, i can’t just get up and get it myself. I have to wait for someone to be awake or home. I don’t want to be a jerk and wake anyone up. My family wouldn’t think so, but i couldn’t help feeling that way.

If I need a bath, I have to wait for my husband to be home so that he can bathe me. Being a stay at home mom, I am use to doing things for myself when I want it done.

I am use to doing things for others.

If I need to get somewhere, I could just drive myself. Not anymore!

I’ve had to learn patience to breath and trust that things will get done.

As for my lesson in humility…that’s another story.

Now, I’m not speaking of humility as me being a showoff or me thinking as myself being better than others.

I mean that my lesson in humility comes from me thinking that I can do things by myself. Counting on me and only me.

We all get dissapoinments in life and most of those come from people letting you down.

In my 30 years of life, I’ve encountered a lot of that. Mostly because I put myself with people that have dissapointed me in the past. I always have the thought that maybe they’ve changed. 

Although that can be seen as kind, (or dumb, you can take your pick), it has been challenging for me to trust others. Even with those that might turn out to be different.

While I was getting my second bath since the insident, it was time for my hair to get washed. As my husband is washing my hair, I just couldn’t help the feeling of it not being clean enough. As he reassured me that it was clean, I insisted on me doing it myself. 

Of course, with the loving husband that he is, he said no and he continued.

I began to cry silently.

I felt useless and helpless.

All my husband could do is continue to bathe me, dry me gently and get me dressed. I know that he knew my all of my feelings at that moment and all that he could do was to try to make me smile.

My husband hasn’t been so deep into my armpits as he has this past week, hahahaha.

I know that everything that he’s done and continues to do is out of love and not obligation.

I also know that those that have volunteered to help, come from their own will. That I have to and can trust them to their word of service.

What I’ve learned about patience and humility

Patience

• Thing will get done in their rightful time. 
• It’s not always all about your timing.
• If you take a step back, you can relax and enjoy every moment. You will heal better, in my case. You will be back to helping others in no time.
• The stress relief that you get is amazing! All by patiently waiting and letting things happen when they need to.
• Patience has also been my lesson in faith. Faith that what I need, will come.

Humility

• It’s okay to trust new people. They might just surprise you more than those that you know.
• Not everything has to be done by you or by yourself.
• Our minds have the nastiests intentions of judjing others thoughts. Trust that everything that they do comes from true intent of love.
• Being of service to others brings you joy and peace. Someone else serving you in your time of need gives them that same joy and peace. So be willing to recieve and let them experiece those feelings.
• Humbling myself to recieve help, has brought me to a different level of peace and love for others. 

My ego still hurts a bit every time that something has to be done for me, but it hurts a lot less knowing that no one is doing something that I wouldn’t do for them. 

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