My Dad had always told me growing up "time is on your side" but I know that I didn't really put much thought into it, as I impatiently went through life as a teenager always wanting life to hurry up to the next best thing. I began to pay attention to what he taught me as I was in my undergrad years at Brigham Young University- Idaho. There is just something about being on your own away from home that makes you wake up and pay attention to some things whether it was having so many roommates over a 4 year period or just having to grow up a little.
But when I entered the Missionary Training Center in Provo, Utah (where missionaries for our church go to learn how to be better teachers and/ or learn a foreign language) and I sat in huge auditorium the words of the speaker rang loud and clear in my ears " Things Take Time." He had told the story of the Currant Bush, as told by Elder Hugh B. Brown and I began to understand.
It has taken me a long time to say this, but I am extremely grateful that God allows " Things [ to] Take Time."
*I am grateful for the blessing I had to grow up in an area with so many different faiths around me, because I was able to really learn to rely on my Heavenly Father for help and strength. I was blessed through time to learn how to communicate with others through love.
*I am grateful that I had to come home from my mission with a parasite and have only time ( a long time) heal me, because modern medicine couldn't kill the parasite I had:) There is such joy in the process of healing, but I would never have learned that if it hadn't taken time.
*I am grateful for the fact that I didn't have the opportunity to marry until I was 24 years old because, with all the heartache from past experiences aside, I married an amazing man and literally my best friend. I had time teach me what and who I was really looking for and who I could become.
*I am grateful that it took 3 years for our little boy to come into our family, because it made his entrance so much sweeter and appreciated, somehow making the heartache from before much less painful and much more full of gratitude.
*I am grateful for the current thyroid problem my body continues to battle with, because it is teaching me to be more kind to myself and not compare myself to others quite as much, but to see more of who my Heavenly Father sees me to be and to become.
*I am grateful for the job that Bryan has been blessed with for almost 3years, because it is employment, it allows him to easily go to grad school, and continues to teach us to be wise stewards with our money, regardless if the job is ideal in our minds at this stage in life.
And I am grateful for all the other little and small things that have and continue to teach me and comfort me that God is the Gardner in our lives.
I am grateful that He hasn't always helped me understand in the midst of the trial the "why?" but has allowed me to grow in faith over long periods of time, where a lot of the time the end could not be seen. And then, and only then He allowed me to understand a piece of what He wants for me. It doesn't mean I am always happy about this process especially in the process, my stubborn nature makes sure it doesn't come that easy for me. But I am happy that it happens this way.
I am grateful for the precious gift that as we turn our wills more to His, and our timing more to His timing, we begin to understand line upon line, little by little that " Time is [really] on our side."Because we are trying to make sure that we are evermore day by day on God's side.
I truly believe and know that time can heal all wounds and teach all things through relying on God, our loving Heavenly Father and our Savior Jesus Christ.
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