What a doozy...but I'm recovering

Ok so yea...I certainly haven't kept up my self-imposed promise to write everyday for 30 days.  Major bumps kept me out of the game. Yep, this last one was a helluva doozy and I imagine I'll be in "recovery" mode for awhile yet. I sure want to rush this process, but alas...that is something I know I can't do.  I am impatient you see...impatient to be better already (enough is enough...isn't it?). I want to move forward with a "meaningful" life, a life of "purpose" ('cause I'm pretty sure I hardly feel full of purpose or meaning at the moment).

I am beginning to realize, however, that the purpose or meaning isn't always what we ascribe to it. While I feel that this desert season has no real value in the worldly sense of the word, I believe it does where God is concerned.  Even though I can't see it nor can I even imagine what good will come from all of this at this point, I know God has a plan.  I want Him to hurry up already, so I can stop suffering.  As Joyce Meyer teaches "Suffering comes from enduring a thing rather than running away from it."  God is our vindicator! Suffer through and allow God to do His work. 

How hard is that? In my humble opinion, really hard! I'm sure I'm no different than the rest of you...pain hurts! (Yea, duh). Who would ever sign up for this? But James 1: 2-4 says "Consider it all joy, my brethren, when you encounter various trials, knowing that the testing of your faith produces endurance. And let endurance have its perfect result, so that you may be perfect and complete, lacking in nothing.

I eagerly await those results.  I know they'll help with the next onslaught of "bumps in the road."