Wow. I hate putting together furniture. It’s one of those things where it sucks the whole time you’re doing it, but strangely satisfying when you’re done. Especially if it doesn’t immediately fall apart! Today Steph and I, along with her sister Corinne, went to Target to pick up a few things. They had this really great entertainment stand at a reasonable price, so I bought it for the new place. We brought it home and immediately started to put it together. Ok, so when these people make these “easy to assemble” pieces, it should really be easy to assemble! Stephanie and I have put together so many pieces of furniture since moving in, and you’d think we’d be pros by now. We thought we were pros by now! Anyway, this stand got the best of us, and we were pretty irritated by the time we were done. It looks amazing though, and I’m pretty happy with it now!

Said all of that to say this: you can definitely learn some stuff about yourself just by putting a piece of furniture together. There were so many moments where I should have just repacked it and returned it. Or just beat the thing with a hammer (and trust me, I wanted to!). But didn’t, just kept right on trucking. Now for me, that’s a great accomplishment! And a surprising one. I definitely found out I have a lot more control of my impatience and frustrations than I originally thought. And all that hard work (it seriously took like 2 hours!) paid off. It made me think about all the times I get frustrated with God and so impatient for him to talk to me, reveal himself, do SOMETHING! And I just give up. Turn away, fill that void with people, TV, books, work, whatever. And yet I still feel like something’s missing. Lately I have been wanting God to reveal himself to me, or let me know so blatently (sp?) that he is here and he cares. I know he is and I know he does, I just want to feel it. But maybe I just need to stick it out, and let God know that I’m here, and I care. Cause maybe there’s something great around the corner he’s getting me ready for. And if I don’t stick it out, I won’t ever know or be prepared for that. Like my entertainment stand. If I didn’t stick it out, my poor TV would still be sitting on the floor!