Tough Season

The good thing about this blog is more than anything it allows me to articulate to some degree what I'm feeling. I always love writing a goofy cereal blog (shameless plug) but the times of reflection are where I find this blog to be most valuable.

Anyway, I always appreciate the opportunity to be transparent. I believe self evaluation, correction, and growth can come about in a great way.
There have been studies that compare the number of words that a man speaks compared to a woman. In one study, woman are shown to have a "word bank" in one particular day to be about 25,000. Men on the other hand hit about 10,000. I find this study interesting in the context of communication. Men, in most cases, have a hard time expressing themselves verbally. Society projects men as unfeeling and unmoved by emotion with the inability to express at a heart level. What is wrong with a guy who is relational and can express himself on an emotional level?

I'd like to consider myself away from that norm and stereotype. Considering the profession I am striving for, I am thankful for the ability I've been blessed with to be sensitive to how I am feeling and subsequently other people. However, I've come to learn through a string of relationships that the Lord has brought into my life that I have a LONG way to go.

However, this new revelation of that aspect of my life has just been a small minute detail contained in an all-encompassing pruning season that Papa has been taking me through. Correction, instruction, humility. The exposing nature of just how far I have to go and how much I need to grow has been a stinging and sobering experience to the highest degree.
Humility ultimately is the key and having a humble heart is my cry.
I don't want to miss what the Lord is saying in this time. These times of instruction, correction, and altering are where I want to be.


This really sums it up in such a simplistic way.
Proverbs 12:1
Whoever loves discipline loves knowledge, but he who hates correction is stupid

I'm learning to love correction, to receive it without an offended heart.

Humility in everything.
I'm not who I thought I was and that's a tough thing to receive but I want to be everything He wants of me.

Learning, changing, correcting
Welcoming it
Thank you, Papa