Being Patient.

Today was a great day for me!

I've been working most Saturdays throughout the summer.  And even on the Saturdays I've had off, I've had things going on.  Well, today I had work off so I decided I needed to do something fun.  My plan for something fun was going to Hyrum Reservoir to go swimming.

I'll just find some friends to go with me!  Well, nope, the few I texted or talked to were busy.  Looks like I was flying solo!  So I jumped in my little Toyota Corolla and drove off on my lone adventure.

The sun was shining and there wasn't a whole lot of people there.  I parked my car at the top of the hill so I would only have to pay $3 instead of $6. (I'm a poor college student k?!) Once I got to the water, I'm sure I was quite the image to behold - super tan below the knees...super white above!  Super tan just past my shoulders and down my arms...super white on shoulders and back!  Walking across those rocks to the water....HAHA!  I almost fell a few times.  I was even laughing at myself.

I finally made it into the water and it was just joyous!  The little waves lapping at the shore, the murky water hiding my multi-colored body, the mud seeping between my toes.  Loved it!

So after a couple of hours of swimming, laying in the sun, and reading my book I decided it was time for me to head home.  I have a rodeo to go to tonight!

Climb back up the big hill to my car and what do I find?!  The back tire on my car is completely flat!  What?! How did that happen?!

Ok, I got this!  One of my best friends from high school had taught me how to change a tire and I knew I could do it!  Grab my jack, my spare and get to work!  Okay, I finally got the hub cap off!  Who knew it could be so hard?!  Now to get the tire off! 

So here's the thing - I'm not very strong.  At all.  I'm pulling on my loosener (what do you even call those things?!), doing a little bit of jumping on it.  I can't even get those stupid things to budge.  Meanwhile, a few cars have driven by and the more time I spend trying to get my tire off, the more I start getting angry at all the people that drive by without stopping.

Can't they see that I have a flat tire?!  And that I'm a short little pudgy girl in a swimsuit?!  I need help people!

After a little while, a middle-aged gentleman comes walking towards me from a house up the street.  He asks me if I need help.  "Yes, thank you! I can't seem to get my tire off!"  Well he just grabs the little loosener tool and pops those things right off!  What?!  How am I that weak?!  So my tire had been worn through on the inside and the little wire things were popping out all over the place.  The man said that he was surprised that the tire hadn't blown on me when I was driving.

We put my doughnut tire on and just my luck! My doughnut tire is flat too!  Bahaha - I can laugh at it now, because it's over.  Well, lo and behold, this kind man has an air compressor at his house!  So he fills up my tire for me and I was soon on my way!

What did I learn from my adventurous day?  Okay, here comes more analogies!  So there I was in a circumstance I didn't like.  I saw other outcomes or circumstances that I would've liked better - like one of those people stopping and helping me.  I got frustrated because things weren't going my way.  But even in this small inconvenient happening, the Lord knew what I needed before I even did.  I didn't know that my doughnut tire was going to be flat!  But He did, and He sent me exactly what I needed.

If my tire would've blown on the road or if one of those other people would've stopped to help me, I still would've had to have my car towed back into Logan.  But the one person who did help me had everything I needed to make it back safely.

So even though I sometimes get impatient with life and want things to go a different way, the Lord still knows what I need and if I'm patient and wait for it, everything will work out in the end!  That is what I learned from my flat tire!  And to be grateful that things aren't worse than they could be!