Patricia T. Holland wrote:
When our minds have been illuminated to see as God sees, it becomes a joy to accept His will.
At a time when my oldest son was still single and wanted so much to get married, I was anxiously pleading with the Lord to bless him. My request was very specific; I knew what my son needed. As I was pleading (with an eye fixed on my needs and my anxieties), asking the Lord to please bless him, the words came resoundingly into my mind, “I am blessing him. Be patient with my plan.” I was stunned and moved to tears. I realized I had been commanding heaven, saying, “Lord, here is your work as I have outlined it. Please notify me when you have bestowed my blessings, pursued my plans, and carried out my will.”
In sweet reply comes the mild rebuke. “If you don’t mind Patricia, I prefer to bestow my blessing and do it in my own way.” When we can feel sure that God has not forgotten us—nor will he ever—and that He is blessing us in his own way, then the world seems a better, safer place. If we can be patient with His process—which simply means having faith—if we can commune personally and often with Him, we can spare ourselves the emptiness if we are “conformed to the world”: faint hearted, impatient, troubled by envy or greed or pride of a thousand kinds. When we keep our minds fixed enough on eternity to remember that God’s ways are not our ways (see Isaiah 55:8-9) ~Patricia T. Holland, A Year of Powerful Prayer (Salt Lake City: Deseret Book, 2013), 327-28
