Patience

They say that patience is a virtue; I'm beginning to think it's a lot more than that, maybe a test to see where our true faith is. Maybe God is trying to tell us something. Have you noticed (and this may just be me, I don't know) how what you want the most is what seems like an eternity to finally get to? Like, we just keep saying "Just a little longer, and then..." or "I only have to wait until such-and-such until..." Our hearts strongest desires are what seem to take the longest, which ultimately teaches us patience. I was talking to my dad about it the other day, and his main advice was simply how God has so much more planned for us than we have for ourselves. Isn't that crazy?! We can think that we want something so bad that it hurts, but in reality, God may just be planning something so much bigger and better for us than what we in our wildest dreams could hope for. He knows everything that we want, but that may not really be what we want, and something so much better may come along. And then again, we may have that God-given desire and strive for it, but it's all going to work out because God has planned it out. But the only thing we have to do is to have patience.