The Weight of Waiting
As we near the end of the year, we all start to think about the new year with new goals and new hopes. But sometimes, the current year’s goals and hopes are not yet completed. We’re often waiting for things to line up correctly—some paperwork to be completed, a permission to be granted, or a […]
Waiting with Expectation
I have long felt my expectations are a bit of a problem. A day derails with children bickering and my feeling generally overwhelmed, and I think If only I had lowered my expectations for this day, then I would not be so disappointed when it fails to deliver. I lie in bed at night replaying […]
Waiting With Purpose
We have been in a season of waiting for four years. Actually, there have been many seasons within that time period. The season of waiting for the pandemic to pass while living in a country that took it to the extremes. The season of waiting for work and team life to return to “normal.” The […]
The Opposite of Waiting is Presence
Hello, friend. I see you. In the thick of this longing season, wishing things were different. Waiting for things to change. There’s a lot of this feeling, isn’t there? There are so many facets of this global life that require us to wait. We wait for partners to come in as we fundraise. We wait […]
Weird with Hope
I was speaking at a conference recently. Sitting at a round dinner table, waiting for my turn to hop up, my chair was turned around backwards facing the other guests while we listened to the current speaker. I noticed the older couple sitting in front of me wasn’t drinking the tea or water that I […]
This Month’s Theme: Wait
“The world is not as it should be. Not yet. We wait in the shadows for God’s full redemption and perfect light that is promised.” —Tsh Oxenreider, Shadow and Light: A Journey into Advent Waiting can feel like carrying a heavy backpack—laden with the burden of uncertainty, weighed down by the tension of not knowing […]
Waiting Together
I was not surprised to find you there. I wished the soldiers didn’t take their duty to guard the tomb so seriously. I knew I couldn’t move the stone even with your help—and honestly? I don’t think I wanted to see his bruised, broken body. But I would like to have touched the stone. I […]
High Speed Waiting
“High speed waiting.” This sign above the entrance to a waiting room in a bus station in China made me smile. It was attempting to describe the room where one waits for the high speed bus. But, isn’t this how we often feel about waiting: fly through it, and get it over quick? One time […]
Waiting as Long as He Says
“God, the one and only—I’ll wait as long as he says. Everything I need comes from him. […] My help and glory are in God—granite-strength and safe-harbor-God—So trust him absolutely, people; lay your lives on the line for him. God is a safe place to be.” Psalm 62: 1a, 7-8 The Message “I will wait […]
The Grove Prompt: Wait
In Invitations From God by Adele Ahlberg Calhoun she asks, “Describe the feelings you experience when you have to wait. What do these feelings reveal about the way you think life should work?” This week we are going to do just that . . . Maybe God will encourage you in ways you have grown when it comes […]
Let It Grow
I planted Mammoth Russian Sunflowers, five in a row in the bed on the side of my house. I didn’t have to wait long before five little green shoots came up between old mulch chips. I had high hopes for attracting pollinators to our raised beds of vegetables, a harvest of seeds, and cheerful big […]
A Letter for the One Who’s Waiting
You in the waiting, Yes, you And yes, me too — For we are all waiting for something — Dear sister, Beloved one, You in the waiting, This much I know: There are no shortcuts to healing. There are no shortcuts to wholeness. For we can’t know God as Healer without first being wounded. And […]