It’s with trust that we dare
to look ahead…
sovereign. His ways are not calculated
equations. If they were, we would try to
copy the equations, wouldn’t we? We’d
get confident about the methods, the
A+B=C, feeling sure if B is always added to
A, it must always equal C.
If purposeful waiting was only for women
waiting for marriage, then you really should
move along right now. But the process of
waiting and asking our Abba Father for
something, not yet receiving, and asking
again is still a huge part of my life.
I feel somehow that I could write a cute
little essay here about waiting purposefully,
but when you find out that I am now
happily married to a crazy-awesome man
named Ben, you might bail and turn the
page on to the next article. I ask God, why
would I even have a voice among women
who are still waiting?
Parts of my life have fallen neatly into
pleasant places. Over the thirty-two years
of my life, I’ve seen an abundant amount
of goodness and beauty. Through it all,
there are threads that I would not have
woven in, because who wants pain to be
part of their story?
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