I’m cringily recalling my recent DMV visit. ‘Nuff said.

Long line. At every location. No appointments available online – throughout the entire state.

Seriously? THIS is what we’re doing? Okay…

After getting out of long lines (or avoiding them completely) at visits during previous weeks, the rubber met the proverbial road and I had to wait in a line winding out the door and around the corner – along with everybody else trying to beat a deadline.

Three. Hour. Wait.

Outside. Sweating. Standing 97% of the time. Ugh!

I concluded that THIS very experience had to be on the spectrum of being identified with Christ’s suffering. It was a very fitting experience for #HolyWeek. 

Thankfully, I survived (and God’s mercy was at work on my behalf as I made it in the door JUST before the cutoff of “the last 4 people” were taken for the day). 

And my character was developed.

So was my patience. That muscle I thought had made such progress…alas, it seems there’s more room for progress!

Drop a comment if you have tips for waiting patiently…I’m all ears!

Blessings, Kayren

“5 And beside this, giving all diligence, add to your faith virtue; and to virtue knowledge;

6 And to knowledge temperance; and to temperance patience; and to patience godliness;

7 And to godliness brotherly kindness; and to brotherly kindness charity.

8 For if these things be in you, and abound, they make you that ye shall neither be barren nor unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ.

9 But he that lacketh these things is blind, and cannot see afar off, and hath forgotten that he was purged from his old sins.”

(II Peter 1:5-9)

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