Reflection Paper On Patience

What do you learn from college besides from what is lectured? College is a place where you not only get an education but take away life skills. Each semester in college should be a new experience and one should have learned important factors. For me last semester I learned from the things that hinder me from becoming a better person. Even though last semester was a test being able to learned real values like patience. Spiritual value and time management was a big accomplish. Patience is defined as the state of endurance under difficult circumstances. Patience seems to be a forgotten value. Most of us have difficulty waiting in line at the grocery or even at the traffic light. We’ve all heard the saying, “Patience is a virtue”, but do we actually understand what it truly means? I have struggled with being patient all my life because I always wanted things right away. Last semester I finally understood the meaning of “Good things come to those who wait.” Time is an important factor with patience because evrythiong comes in its own time. I had to learn that God’s timing is not on the same wavelength as ours. Patient does not come over night and it is not easy to learn it, but God helped me along the way. Sometimes I still find myself getting impatient, but when I do I begin to pray and

I learned that the prize is far better if you wait on it. Every day we are faced with new challenges and sometimes you may have to repeat those challenges until you get them right. For Ecclesiastes 9:11 states, “The race is not given to the swift nor the strong but to those who endured to the end.” I accomplish every obstacle that was set in my way and I am closer to the finish mark. Hardships come to make you stronger, wiser and overall a better person. Even though last semester rocky, it taught me to stand on God’s word because we walk by faith and not by sight. I wouldn’t trade none of it because it made me a stronger