I’m going to be straight with you. Sometimes, I become lame and
really want to have a boyfriend NOW. I don’t want to have to wait years
to finally have one. I become extremely impatient and the thoughts of “I
want a boyfriend” continue to go through my head for as long as I allow
them. I become discontent with how my life is because all of my friends
who have significant others seem to be having a better life than I. I
become so typical teenage girl-ish that it ruins my whole day.
I was having one of these “Teen Days” just a few weeks ago. A few of
my girl friends had just gotten nice boyfriends, and I let it linger
through my head that I “kind of” wanted a boyfriend. Well, the thought
kept going through my head. It went from “kind of”, to “maybe”, to
“really”, to “NEEDED”. I got to where I was in a mood where I wouldn’t
leave my room and I just didn’t want to see anybody or hear about
anything having to do with my friends who were in a relationship. If I
saw one “I love you” written from a friend to her boyfriend, I’d scoff,
roll my eyes, and become bitterly jealous. I’d become such a pathetic
jerk and an extremely selfish person.
As I was wallowing in self-pity and selfishness, I looked up onto my
bookshelf and saw the book “I Kissed Dating Goodbye”. I thought, “Okay,
maybe this will help a little bit.” I started right where I left off
last, and the first thing I read was the title of the chapter, “The
Right Thing at the Wrong Time is the Wrong Thing”. PANG! My heart felt
like it got smacked. As I read one story, the ending to it said this -
“Too often, people want what they want (or what they think they want, which is usually “happiness” in one form or another) right now.
The irony of their impatience is that only by learning to wait, and by a
willingness to accept the bad with the good, do we usually attain those
things that are truly worthwhile.”
As I continued to read, the chapter was about how any season of
singleness is a gift from God. I have put a bookmark in the book on that
page, and I now turn to it any time that I start feeling impatient when
it comes to relationships.
God really knew how to get to me that day. I love how He reveals things!
