{"id":167,"date":"2020-09-19T15:00:27","date_gmt":"2020-09-19T14:00:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/boluak.com\/blog\/?p=167"},"modified":"2020-08-23T17:55:24","modified_gmt":"2020-08-23T16:55:24","slug":"patience-a-lesson-of-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/boluak.com\/blog\/2020\/09\/19\/patience-a-lesson-of-life\/","title":{"rendered":"PATIENCE: A Lesson OF Life."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I walked into a hotel and after going through the menu, I ordered some food.<br \/>After about 20 mins a group of guys and ladies walked in &amp; ordered theirs.<br \/>To my dismay, these folks got served first. I watched as they began to eat &amp; laugh heartily.<br \/>I even overheard one of them bragging about how connected he is to everyone in the hotel and I felt mocked.<br \/>I decided to leave. Unable to take it anymore , I called the waiter. He calmly told me: &#8220;Yours is a special order, being prepared by the chief chef himself.<br \/>Their orders were prepared hurriedly by students on attachment because the top chefs are busy with yours Sir. That&#8217;s why they were served first. Please have some juice as you wait&#8221;. I calmed down &amp; waited patiently.<br \/>Shortly after, my meal was served by 6 waiters. Unknown to me, the owner of the hotel (who happened to be an old long lost friend of mine) saw me when I entered and decided to surprise me.<br \/>She changed my simple meal to a five-star meal. The party at the other table were shocked.<br \/>They couldn&#8217;t stop staring. Suddenly they were the ones murmuring, asking why they didn&#8217;t get that kind of service and meal.<br \/>Such is life! Some people are ahead of you and are eating now, laughing at you and talking about how they are smarter, wiser and better than you, how they are well connected, blessed, have money and are enjoying life .<br \/>You are waiting tirelessly wondering why it&#8217;s taking so long to breakthrough, You endure mockery and humiliation.<br \/>Maybe you have contemplated suicide, gone throughout depression or suffered severe mental anxiety.<br \/>Do not worry! The owner of the world has seen you &amp; doesn&#8217;t want you to be served a simple meal like those making a mockery of you. You&#8217;re waiting long because yours is a special meal.<br \/>It takes time to prepare. And only chief chefs prepare them.<br \/>Wait for your meal and relax .<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>David Abioye<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I walked into a hotel and after going through the menu, I ordered some food.After about 20 mins a group of guys and ladies walked in &amp; ordered theirs.To my dismay, these folks got served first. I watched as they began to eat &amp; laugh heartily.I even overheard one of them bragging about how connected &hellip; <a class=\"read-excerpt\" href=\"http:\/\/boluak.com\/blog\/2020\/09\/19\/patience-a-lesson-of-life\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&raquo;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[65,57,36],"class_list":["post-167","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-failure","tag-inspirational","tag-meaning-of-life"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1MvDW-2H","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":193,"url":"http:\/\/boluak.com\/blog\/2020\/08\/15\/you-are-not-home-yet\/","url_meta":{"origin":167,"position":0},"title":"You are not home yet!","author":"boluak","date":"August 15, 2020","format":false,"excerpt":"After forty years of faithful service to the Lord as a missionary to Africa, Henry Morrison and his wife were returning to New York. 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