While I am waiting...

Family, 

One of the most dismissed topics is patience which simply means to wait. Here’s a task: try talking to someone who is waiting on test results, loan decisions, a job interview, or news from a doctor.  Most people will not even blink and actions will show…waiting is not an option. The world has conditioned us to rush without stopping to consider “why?” or if there is purpose in what we are doing.  A short story about my Uncle who was waiting to finish his home. He dreamed of a completed trailer by Summer of 2007. He had his tools, all the materials, even started working on it. He told me his plans and boy did I get excited right along with him. Until the day he was found dead in his unfinished trailer late Summer of 2006. He died of cancer. When it was time to go through and clear out his belongings, I noticed so many projects he began but did not have time to complete. My Uncle believed there was always something missing. It was at that moment I realized my dear Uncle was not “waiting” the right way. If he had thought about time, he would have put at least one knob on the door. All the materials were there, but death is so untimely and life is unpredictable. The only comfort I had was this  scripture: Isaiah 40:31: But those who wait on 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. 

I learned a new way to appreciate life and accept death as a natural part of the process. Try not to take anyone for granted. Appreciate one another and learn to truly love without conditions, that it makes life worth living, time worth giving, grace worth sharing and hope worth building. Praise God for His goodness.

If you find yourself wanting to give up, don't.  One day to the Lord is like one thousand years.  2 Peter 3:8-9 (read the entire book on your own): But, beloved, do not forget this one thing, that with the Lord one day is as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day. The Lord is not slack concerning His promise, as some count slackness, but is longsuffering toward [a]us, not willing that any should perish but that all should come to repentance. 

Even though you think it’s over - think again and know that whatever you may be waiting on, in time it will show.

Love your sister in Christ,

LolaInspired