Waiting

Waiting is hard.

(You came early.  You were such a wonderful interruption to our crazy-young-married-finishing-up-college-part-time-working kind of life.  We didn't have to wait for you.)

Have you not known? Have you not heard? The Lord is the everlasting God, the Creator of the ends of the earth. He does not faint or grow weary; his understanding is unsearchable. He gives power to the faint, and to him who has no might he increases strength. Even youths shall faint and be weary, and young men shall fall exhausted; but they who wait for the Lord shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings like eagles; they shall run and not be weary; they shall walk and not faint. (Isaiah 40:28-31 ESV)

(God, please help me to wait, please remind me that You are in control, please remind me that in my agenda-planning-little-margin life to wait for Your timing.)

Know that the Lord, he is God! It is he who made us, and we are his; we are his people, and the sheep of his pasture. Enter his gates with thanksgiving, and his courts with praise! Give thanks to him; bless his name! For the Lord is good; his steadfast love endures forever, and his faithfulness to all generations. (Psalm 100:3-5 ESV)

(God, please help me rest while I wait, please help me to not lose hope, to not be disappointed, to be content.)

Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. (1 Corinthians 13:7 ESV)

(God, please help me to understand Your love for me.  Please help me to love.)

The heart of man plans his way, but the Lord establishes his steps. (Proverbs 16:9 ESV)

(And so now I wait to meet your new little one.  In all my planning and re-planning I've learned somewhere along the journey of my life that sometimes I just need to wait.  It doesn't always make it easier to come to the place of surrender to waiting...but I am confident that it will be worth the wait.)

¹wait

 verb \ˈwāt\

: to stay in a place until an expected event happens, until someone arrives, until it is your turn to do something, etc.

: to not do something until something else happens

: to remain in a state in which you expect or hope that something will happen soon

from www.Merriam-Webster.com

to David with Love, mom