Patience

"Continue in Patience", Elder Uchtdorf, April Conference, 2010.

My most favorite quote of this whole talk:

"(Patience) means staying with something and doing all that we can--working, hoping, and exercising faith; bearing hardship with fortitude, even when the desires of our hearts are delayed. Patience is not simply enduring, it is enduring well".

I was told in a blessing a few years ago that I had delayed my future.
Hearing that really made me step back and try to figure out what I needed to do.
Often times I wonder why the Lord has waited so long for me and is still waiting for me to give me that blessing of being a wife and a mother. And I know that I need to learn some more things.

And I'm ok with that.

That's why I loved this quote so much.
Because it challenges me to work, hope, and have faith--even when the innermost desire of my heart is delayed. And instead of enduring my trial right now...I am living through it, learning by it, and hoping for it.