Roundabout

When I first got my license, I thought it was so fun to drive around the roundabout multiple times. Sometimes, I would see how fast I could drive in a circle. It was like a game. In fact, I remember once, when my cousin was driving, we went around it so much that the car went up onto the edge of the roundabout. That is when we knew we had to exit.

As an adult I wish I could go back to those times. The easier times when playing in a roundabout meant making sure I did not crash or seeing how fast I could drive through it. As an adult, being in the roundabout is less of a real-life adventure and more of a metaphor for my feelings of having too many decisions. I have all these options and they are all good, I could do any of them. None of them are bad, but what is good? What is better? And what is best? Or are they all equal and I get to choose?

I don’t know the answer to any of those questions, but the other day I was talking to my friend Peggy about this and she said “Isn’t it better that we are in a roundabout with choices, then at a dead end? You know what, she was right. I would rather have choices then nothing. It turns out that my struggles is not the roundabout but the patience that is needed while I am in the roundabout.

Patience is a Christ-like attribute and in some ways it has been the hardest one for me to develop. For this reason I am on a journey, a journey to discover how I can become more patient and I want to take you with me. So far I have learned what I would call step 1. Drawing closer to Christ. In the coming weeks, we are going to dive deeper into what it means to draw closer to Christ and how I do it. I want to take y’all on this journey of discovering patience with me. I have no idea where it will take us, but I trust that it will be good.