Believe that god will do what he said he would do
It's easy to feel discouraged when life doesn't look the way you expected, but I've found that god will do what he said he would do, even if the timeline looks nothing like the one you had in mind. We live in a world that's obsessed with speed. We want our packages delivered in two hours, our food ready in five minutes, and our prayers answered before we even finish saying "amen." So, when things take a year, or five, or ten, we start to wonder if we heard wrong. We start to doubt if the promise was ever real in the first place. ...