Just something I've been learning...
"I wish it were 5 hours from now" I would say when I have a piano test in the next couple hours
"I wish it were last week" I would say when I was at Disneyland or a retreat the week before
"I wish it were winter break" I would say when fall semester begins
"I cannot wait for tomorrow to be over!" I would say when I have a final the next morning
discontentment written all over. I was told that I say "I wish" and "I cannot wait" frequently, so I've been trying to say "I am looking forward to" and if I cannot replace "I wish" with that then something's pretty wrong with my thinking. Such as if I say "I wish it were the past"... I'm living too much in the past. If I say"I wish this weren't happening to me" I'm probably not trusting in the Lord.
But things like "I wish it were end of the semester" can be replaced with "I am looking forward to semester being over" and then it causes me to ask why instead of just simply being grumpy and wishing for things. Although "I am looking forward to" has similar meaning to "I wish" I think the attitude is different. Maybe it's less of a complaint but more of just eagerness.
If you have other thoughts or something added to this that is Biblical let me know! B/c I'm just learning and if I'm not learning directly from the Bible there can be great error. Btw, if I tell you about this, I just want to maybe help you because I'm more aware of it when people say "I wish" and "I cannot wait" and if it just seems not applicable... then ignore me. haha.
(also you can keep me accountable to this. when i'm convicted of little habits like this i can easily go back b/c my conviction was good in that it's a good habit to have but bad in that my heart wasn't fully doing it for the right reason)
anyway I'm starting to like yogurt... yogurtland yogurt that is (but not a fanatic about it)
