to the girl with the impatient heart

Many girls, like myself, have an impatient heart. Whether it's about love, school or anything in between, I personally have found my heart has been impatient for love lately. My impatient nature is nothing new, but my recent struggle with an impatient heart wanting to find love has been a struggle. I'm not talking about love from family or friends, because I am surly blessed with lots of love from them, the love my heart has been looking for is from a boy. I look around and see people getting married or having a wonderful relationship and instead of being happy for them, I find myself feeling jealously towards them. The Bible says in Philippians 2:3-4 "do nothing out of selfish ambition or vain conceit. Rather, in humility value others above yourselves, not looking to your own interests but each of you to the interests of the others." We should not be jealous of others for finding that significant other they want to spend the rest of their life with, we should instead be showing humility and having sincere joy and happiness for them. Ladies our time will come one day, the fear of the unknown and the impatient feeling will go away and our prince charming will change that feeling into love, joy and happiness. I recently read a blog post over on the Odyssey's website called "To the girl waiting for him to text back" and she did a fantastic job of explaining what we should be doing instead of sitting around waiting for "the ideal guy" to text us or love us back. It's so hard to live in this society where our main focus is to obtain the comment #relationshipgoals underneath our adorable candid pictures with Mr. Right. However, we must remember it is better to wait for the actual Mr.Right to come along and show us that what we've been waiting for was worth it. Waiting gives us the ability to find the man who is not going to help us obtain the "relationship goals" comments under our pictures but instead obtain a love for God and helping each other strive for the ultimate goal, which is a home in Heaven. But until then we must remember that God has such a bigger plan and knows exactly what the future holds for our impatient hearts. Until then remember these three Bible versus and apply then to your daily life.

1. 1 Corinthians 13:4-8 gives an example of the type of love we should be striving for

"Love is patient and kind; love does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; it does not rejoice at wrongdoing, but rejoices with the truth. Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. Love never ends. As for prophecies, they will pass away; as for tongues, they will cease; as for knowledge, it will pass away."

2. Philippians 4:6 tells us not to worry about things of this world but to pray to God about our worries

^"Do not be anxious about anything, but in every situation, by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, present your requests to God."

3. 1 John 2:16 tells us not to strive for things of this world but for greater things that have yet to come
"For all that is in the world—the desires of the flesh and the desires of the eyes and pride in possessions—is not from the Father but is from the world."

XOXO MOE