Up Down In Out

When you write something down it becomes powerful. I just recently found this out. My last post I explained my 3 words that I was concentrating on this year. Grace. Love. Patience. Well…I have been challenged or forced to stretch that muscle of patience these past 2 days. Interesting that when I wrote it I didn’t really think about it. But now that it’s out there, (insert sigh) it’s out there.

Tonight I went to a concert to enjoy, not to work, which was a nice change of pace. The fact that I wore Converse, now that was a mistake. Standing on cement in Converse, well I haven’t done that in a while and my feet, back and knees felt it. So as I am tapping my foot slightly to the music and I notice a blonde woman swaying in front of me. Now usually swaying doesn’t really bother me, but here’s the thing at concerts a few things always happen to me, always.

I will either get the “talkers” (people who come to a concert to talk rather than listen to music, they are most likely wearing too much make up, constantly adjusting their outfits and wearing UGG boots) or I get “dancers” (people, mainly women, who feel the music, usually off beat through their whole body and have the urge to show everyone what they are feeling & bumping into me while they do so). Well tonight, I was really lucky, because the blonde woman was both! Yay for me! Oh and for some reason I portray walkway in front of me at concerts. You know I create a nice bubble in front of me so I am not too close to anyone and people see that as a walkway and continue to walk in front of me for the entire concert, that’s always fun.

As I talked about this with my husband on they way home from the concert he said, “Grace. Love. Patience.”

And I simply said, “(Insert big sigh)”

Patience. Love. Grace.

Every year at work I am asked to make 3 personal goals and 3 professional goals. I write them out and send an email along to my boss. Done and done. The project is done. The only problem is come March, I have no recollection of what goals I wrote down. I do this assignment as just that, an assignment. Someone asks me to do something, I do it. Gold Star. Moving on.

But this time I actually put some thought into what my goals should be and I actually used one of my goals as a personal and a professional one. This is what I wrote:

-Run a ½ marathon.

-Take more photos and hopefully these photos will inspire creativity, either within me or for someone else.

-Focus more on my 3 words every day: Patience, Love, Grace. Put these words in my pocket and use the meaning and essences of them daily.

If you haven’t guessed the last one is the cross over goal. I have learned when you cry out to God for something like, “Oh Lord give me patience!” He challenges you. He says got it, I am going to give you an entire day where you have to stretch that muscle. That’s when Love and Grace come into play. You see I can be patience, but my face tells all. Oh boy does it tell all! I can be patience, but not nice. And then Grace comes in and sweeps me away. And I am so thankful for that. So thankful! 

Love? Well, love is something that I need to do every day. Love on people. That’s what we all need, desire and long for anyway right? Some love.

PS I didn't take this photo. But I was patience today, so I say gold star for January 27th.