I remember as a child wanting a dog. I always wanted a dog. But we lived in New York City, and I don’t blame my parents, I wouldn’t have gotten me a dog either if I was them! Seriously, walking it in the city, and all that stuff… Come on… that’s a no brainer. But when we moved, I knew that there was a dog coming our way. See, we moved to the burbs, of Philly. With a fenced in back yard and a pool and all, we were set for a dog.
My parents loved me. They loved me a lot. But they still didn’t get me a dog until I was 12. I waited. 12 whole, long years. That was not fun. But I waited.
What was the hardest thing that you have ever had to wait for? What do you think about while you are waiting?
Let me give you a hint, the hardest thing that I’ve had to wait for has not been the dog… What about you?
~peter
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The hardest thing I have had to wait for is for everything to be settled with the youngest, for her to finally be ours legally. What do I think about? I think about how children are on loan from God and how I don’t know how long any of my children will get to stay with me. I think about how God never breaks a promise. I think about Phil 4:6-7 and how being anxious won’t make me a good mother, wife, or friend. I think about what the official change will mean to the other family that will be loosing what I am gaining. I think about how God’s timing and God’s plan is so much more complicated and beautiful then I will ever understand, and how as much as I want to understand there is a bigger piece that is glad I don’t have to understand, and can just trust.
you were not twelve! you were definitely still in elementary school because it was like a year after we moved.
he may have been almost 12! you were 4 when we moved to PA which made him 9, right? so maybe he was 10 or 11 when we got cassie.