This morning I went to take one of my college tests. For me, the drive affords me a thirty-minute reprieve from the chaos of homeschoolnig four children. LOL So, Ishut off the radio and in between my yelling at Texas drivers who are either driving 20 mph or 80mph in the rain, I prayed. Naturally, during the course of this quasi-quiet time, I prayed about my writing. My proctor’s assistant had mentioned something again about God’s timing…why do they always say that?? Yes. I Know my getting published is in **HIS** timing…but I was wrestling with it. And then I got to wondering why we wrestle. So, I prayed and asked God to…and I cringed right about here…help me embrace this.

Okay, so now I’m wondering, How exactly does one embrace something like this? For me, I’m going to start with realizing that even though this is NOT happening in the order I’d like it to happen–cuz most likely, I’d skip the trials and head straight to the rewards (anyone with me on that?? LOL)–I will focus on the excitment that it IS going to happen. I mean, think about it. You prepare and work and get ready for conferences and seminars…you build your excitment that it’s coming, but do you get depressed that it’s not here right now? No. You concentrate on the fact that each click (oops…slipped into my space opera there) that passes brings you one closer to the reward.

So that might seem cheesy to some, but it will help me focus on the PROMISE, not the temporal disappointment.

What are you embracing?