Waiting on God.
I'm an extremely impatient person, so learning to wait has been hard for me, especially waiting on God and His timing in my life. The hardest waiting periods of my life so far have been waiting to meet and marry my DH, waiting for God to grow our family with a child, and waiting for loved ones to recognize their need for God and return to Him and His Church.
The 3rd waiting example is a little different than the first two, and I will just speak to those two. In the first two cases, I can still clearly remember the angst, jealousy, and fear that would crop up as I spent months and then years waiting to see what God had in store for me regarding marriage and children. The waiting would grow harder as I looked around to see those friends and family members all around me doing the things that my heart longed to do (get married, have kids). And that was what I found interesting...the more I would look around at others, the more I would grow restless and uncomfortable in that current season of life. The more I would look up at God, trusting Him in that season, the more tolerable my current season of life would be.
I have so many more thoughts on waiting as I find myself again waiting on God. Waiting to see what He has in store for our family regarding this move (which in no way compares to the above two long seasons of waiting that I had to endure. I want to make sure that is clear. There are different kinds and lengths of waiting; some are definitely harder than others.), but I want to encourage each of you in a waiting season of life right now to head on over to this blog, In its time. The author is posting every day in October about some aspect of waiting. She has such amazing things to say about waiting- worship and waiting, God's promises and waiting, learning how to wait, waiting well, etc. I have no doubt that if you find yourself in a season of waiting, at least one of the 31 posts she does this month will touch your heart and speak to you. I know they have for me already.
I'm an extremely impatient person, so learning to wait has been hard for me, especially waiting on God and His timing in my life. The hardest waiting periods of my life so far have been waiting to meet and marry my DH, waiting for God to grow our family with a child, and waiting for loved ones to recognize their need for God and return to Him and His Church.
The 3rd waiting example is a little different than the first two, and I will just speak to those two. In the first two cases, I can still clearly remember the angst, jealousy, and fear that would crop up as I spent months and then years waiting to see what God had in store for me regarding marriage and children. The waiting would grow harder as I looked around to see those friends and family members all around me doing the things that my heart longed to do (get married, have kids). And that was what I found interesting...the more I would look around at others, the more I would grow restless and uncomfortable in that current season of life. The more I would look up at God, trusting Him in that season, the more tolerable my current season of life would be.
I have so many more thoughts on waiting as I find myself again waiting on God. Waiting to see what He has in store for our family regarding this move (which in no way compares to the above two long seasons of waiting that I had to endure. I want to make sure that is clear. There are different kinds and lengths of waiting; some are definitely harder than others.), but I want to encourage each of you in a waiting season of life right now to head on over to this blog, In its time. The author is posting every day in October about some aspect of waiting. She has such amazing things to say about waiting- worship and waiting, God's promises and waiting, learning how to wait, waiting well, etc. I have no doubt that if you find yourself in a season of waiting, at least one of the 31 posts she does this month will touch your heart and speak to you. I know they have for me already.
You are so right that focusing on Him makes any waiting easier! Thanks for sharing the link. I'm looking forward to checking it out.
ReplyDeleteYou're welcome!
DeleteI need to catch up on Stacy's blog ... she writes so beautifully! And you do too!!!
ReplyDeleteI think two of the hardest things to wait for are husbands & babies. So much of your heart is missing until you have them in your life.
Ahh...thanks. You're so sweet.
DeleteHello; I found your blog via JBTC.
ReplyDeleteI really enjoyed this post. You are so right about how when we look at others instead of God, our waiting becomes so heavy and unbearable. As we are facing secondary subfertility (after having primary subfertility -- thanks PCOS), I am finding myself feeling "left behind" by all of the friends who have children my dd's age (2) and who already have another or are expecting again. It is such a struggle. Thank you for sharing the link at the end!
Glad you found me!
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