Happy Friday!

Working in an industry where my heart does not lie has truly tested my perseverance at times as I've struggled to pull it together and have a good attitude.  And now that the countdown is on (82 days until we leave), it's really hard to not let myself be a total LOSER at work! However, I must be reminded that there is still work to be done, and not just in my day to day duties here, but for a greater good. A coworker has the Serenity prayer on his door and I think about it a lot…

God, give us grace to accept with serenity
the things that cannot be changed,
Courage to change the things
which should be changed,
and the Wisdom to distinguish
the one from the other.

I go through ups and downs in the work place and beyond, struggling to not worry about “temporary troubles”, things that feel meaningless or stressful even if I tell myself I have no reason to complain, or worse so over my head that I have no idea how I’ll get through them. But I’m starting to really grasp the fact that adversity prepares us for what God has ahead. Corinthians 2 4:17 tells us that our troubles won’t last forever:

"For our present troubles are small and won't last very long. Yet they produce for us a glory that vastly outweighs them and will last forever!"

What this tells me is that in faith, I am going to accept these truths, and trust that it will all make sense in eternity, where I’ve been promised an incredible outcome, one beyond anything we can fathom. I won’t always be able to understand why things are the way they are, but I need to have FAITH, and continue to seek the Lord in all I do, even if I can’t see what He is doing…

"So we fix our eyes not on what is seen, but on what is unseen, since what is seen is temporary, but what is unseen is eternal.” Corinthians 4:18

How amazing is it, that by grace we've been promised eternity with Him?? In faith we go....