Precious, precious patience

I have decided to start a new blog. We have had so many transitions and changes in life. Blogging has been of the many things that fell off the table in the last four years with the many shifting things in our lives. It has been on my heart to blog again for the last year or two. My husband has always encouraged me in blogging, however, every time I thought about sitting down and continuing with my original blog, I always had this overwhelming feeling of "I'm in such a different season of life". So, it should result in a different blog, a new blog. This blog really is an outlet for my many thoughts, documentation of the joys and struggles of a simple girl, a follower of Christ, a wife, a mother, a daughter, a friend. I picked "precious patience" as the name because my greatest prayer these days, is prayers for patience. I have been a mom for about 7 years now. I love being a mom to my three (almost 4) children--It is a true joy for me. However, I quickly learned that I have never invested so much of "me" into anything in my life. Nothing compares. It has been a lot of sacrifice. It has been full of many stretching moments and a lot of deconstruction of my ideals. It has also enveloped and directly produced many of the richest and most precious moments of my life, thus far. I hope I can consistently keep up typing and editing all the billions of thoughts and learning situations that find me reflective about the bigger picture in life. Comically, enough, they happen in the most repetitive
 situations of my day... folding laundry, in particular.


"We don’t do many grand and significant things in our life. Most of us will not be written up in history books. Most of us will only be remembered by family and perhaps a few friends. Most of us will be forgotten in two or three generations after our deaths. There simply are not many grand moments of life, and we surely don’t live life in those moments. No, we live life in the utterly mundane. We exist in bathrooms, bedrooms, living rooms, and hallways of life. This is where the character of life is set. This is where we live the life of faith.”

Paul David Tripp