How long must I wait?

So I've been wanting to blog for awhile now, but I just couldn't seem to come up with anything worth blogging about.
But I think I finally found something.
yay! :]

About two weeks ago I had lunch with a girl I am becoming very good friends with. Her name is Amie. We where sitting at the Goolrick's counter, drinking cokes and eating sandwiches, when she suddenly asked me "So Tori, what has God been teaching you?"
It caught me by suprise, but it was a great question.
It took me a minute to really think that out, because God has taught me so much over this past year. Little things and big things. But I knew the one huge thing that I had been learning this past year.
So I answered "Patience."

I've learned that God's plan is the best plan and the only plan worth living. And sometimes, we have to wait for that plan to reveal itself. Things don't just happen all at once. Thats what was, and still is, hard for me. Not knowing what God's plans are right away.
I would also worry, "What if I miss God's sign?"..."What if I don't realize when He's telling me to go a certain way?"...but I could be wondering "what if's what if's what if's" all day. They don't solve anything. They just make your head hurt.

But someone showed me this verse "Your ears will hear a voice behind you saying, this is the way, walk in it" thats in Isaiah 30.
That verse has helped me a lot.
But its not just patience about the future that I have been learning, but patience in the little things. I'm naturally not a patient person, its just one of my huge faults. I never tried to fix it. I just always told myself "Nobody's perfect, everyone has their problems, and this is one of mine. I'll live with it." But thats not the attitude we should have.
Thats another thing I've been learning.
Being an inpatient person is not appealing to anyone. I don't even like being around inpatient people, and yet I AM one. I shouldn't just brush off my faults and live with them, I should want to change them. So, I've been working on being more patient with my family, and friends...and the computer and the microwave, and even my dog. Things take time.
I can't rush the microwave, because it takes time to heat up food. I can't rush my dog, because she is a puppy and it will take time for her to get the hang of things, I can't rush my family and friends, and I most certainly can not rush God. His way is the best way, and His plans for you will not always come out the way we want them too, or when we want them too. But we have to have comfort in knowing He is always there, and He will not let us down.

So, there are some of my thoughts lately :] I know it was kind of all over the place, but hopefully I got my thoughts across.