Making Lemonade
"When life throws you lemons, make lemonade!"
Christina and I have been putting this advice into practice this weekend. We're here in Indianapolis waiting for our house to close. Since it's not ready, we have had to put our things in a storage unit and extend our stay in local hotels. It's a little frustrating not to be in our new home since we were really looking forward to it. It's also frustrating since it comes in a train of several other complications with the mortgage process.
However, I am determined to make the best of the situation and have a good attitude despite the frustration. God is pleased when we choose to have a good attitude amidst a challenging situation. I decided to look for ways that God might be trying to bless us as a result of our house not closing. Christina's mom helped me to identify the best one: Christina and I have been able to spend a lot more time together the past few days just talking than we would have had. We've gotten very familiar with the layout of the new city by driving around to run some errands. We also have gotten a lot of time to discuss how we want to set up our new home, and we're both on the same page and looking forward to it a lot. It's also neat to see how supportive our church is of us and how eager they are to help us move into our house once we get the keys.
In addition to all this, we get to stay in a nice hotel for a whole week! I went for a walk yesterday and found some amazing spots to explore, take pictures, or just hang out with God. I plan to come back to those spots sometime when I just need to take a break. We got to attend part of the MCCA conference that our church went to. If we had been in our house, we would have spent the whole weekend unpacking.
Finally, I think that in addition to God blessing us with these things, He is building patience in us (and patience can only be developed in the context of frustrating times). It's always helpful for me to step back and look at things from this perspective. Sure, frustrating times come, but when life throws you lemons, you might as well make lemonade! Look for the good things going on despite (or even as a result of) the bad things, and suddenly a situation takes on a whole new dimension.
Christina and I have been putting this advice into practice this weekend. We're here in Indianapolis waiting for our house to close. Since it's not ready, we have had to put our things in a storage unit and extend our stay in local hotels. It's a little frustrating not to be in our new home since we were really looking forward to it. It's also frustrating since it comes in a train of several other complications with the mortgage process.
However, I am determined to make the best of the situation and have a good attitude despite the frustration. God is pleased when we choose to have a good attitude amidst a challenging situation. I decided to look for ways that God might be trying to bless us as a result of our house not closing. Christina's mom helped me to identify the best one: Christina and I have been able to spend a lot more time together the past few days just talking than we would have had. We've gotten very familiar with the layout of the new city by driving around to run some errands. We also have gotten a lot of time to discuss how we want to set up our new home, and we're both on the same page and looking forward to it a lot. It's also neat to see how supportive our church is of us and how eager they are to help us move into our house once we get the keys.
In addition to all this, we get to stay in a nice hotel for a whole week! I went for a walk yesterday and found some amazing spots to explore, take pictures, or just hang out with God. I plan to come back to those spots sometime when I just need to take a break. We got to attend part of the MCCA conference that our church went to. If we had been in our house, we would have spent the whole weekend unpacking.
Finally, I think that in addition to God blessing us with these things, He is building patience in us (and patience can only be developed in the context of frustrating times). It's always helpful for me to step back and look at things from this perspective. Sure, frustrating times come, but when life throws you lemons, you might as well make lemonade! Look for the good things going on despite (or even as a result of) the bad things, and suddenly a situation takes on a whole new dimension.
posted by Ben and Christina at
9:05 PM
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Great job. I have really enjoyed reading all that you have wrote. You guys are in my daily prayers.
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