One Sunday morning our pastor described impatience, the attitude of demanding to receive what we when we want it, as a sin. His words made me feel quite smug. Because I’d just spent 3 months patiently doing hand exercises and patiently waiting for the thumb tendon I’d severed in a moment of impatience to heal.
Not once had I asked him to heal my thumb and heal it right now. Instead, I had entrusted its healing to God and hadn’t spent 3 months chomping at the bit. I was sitting pretty in the patience department. The pride thing not so much, but no need going down that rabbit hole. With my patience quotient at an all time high, I felt more than ready for the launch of the redesign of my other website, www.DifferentDream.com.
Just so you know, a redesign launch can bankrupt a person’s patience quotient faster than a person can click a button to begins the redesign launch. That’s not the best analogy I’ve ever made, but it’s the best an impatient person can do. Other than to explain to those who think they’re as patient as the day is long of how much patience is needed for a redesign launch.
- Enough to delay the launch two days so a tech guy can manually transfer two months of posts which the test website didn’t pick up automatically.
- Enough to figure out why ever blog post displays two of the featured image instead of one.
- Enough to not become a quivering mound of jelly when you discover several years of archived posts have disappeared.
- Enough to stay calm when Facebook refuses to pick up the featured image for posts you want to share, even though the blog continues to show two of the same image instead of one.
- Enough to not burst into tears when the website is no longer mobile-friendly.
- Enough to report all these things to the designer and tech guy in a calm and courteous manner.
- Enough to wait for the designer and tech guy to fix all the snafus and to thank them profusely when they do it. Every. Single. Time.
- Enough to accept the many compliments about the redesign.
- Enough to realize that God can use the launch of a redesigned website as a way to grow your patience.
And enough to invite faithful readers of this website to visit the other website and enter the weekly book give aways to celebrate the new look at DifferentDream.com.
