Disappointment.
True story. I am grateful today for disappointment. Things that don’t turn out as expected and come out a bit worse. Those things I am grateful to God for.
Why would I be grateful for that? Well here’s what it says to me about me. It says I still have expectations and I am right to have those expectations. It says that when those expectations are not being met, it is not always the best thing to treat it in a glib fashion.
What I am also being taught in these disappointments is the importance of expressing them before God and good friends. Then as I express them, I leave them with God and accept reasons to be grateful that every setback and disappointment can be used as a building block to do something else more effectively.
I am also grateful because even in the disappointments I know that I too have disappointed people either by action or inaction. The grace of God has been overwhelming and the power to do good and not disappoint is something that influences me and leaves me without excuse and with Someone to completely rely on.
For His Name’s Sake
Shalom
C. L. J. Dryden
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