What Are You Waiting For?

How do you respond when you’re in a season of waiting? 

Where something is out of your control, causing you to remain stationary, paused where you are.

Maybe you know exactly what you want and you can’t yet make your move, or you know you want something different, but you don’t yet know what that is.

I confess that I don’t live seasons of waiting very gracefully. Most days I am impatient and frustrated, trying to figure out a way to bring the waiting to an end.

Oftentimes, I find it easy in a season of waiting to think I’ve been forgotten, that God is not hearing or answering my prayers, that He’s left me all alone. 

But, having survived two difficult seasons of waiting in the past, I can look back and see how God may have been silent, not sharing each step with me, not allowing me to see things as they were being worked on behind the scenes, but that He had definitely not forgotten me or left me all alone. In fact, He was working on my behalf to bring me into a new season filled beauty and adventure. And, if I hadn’t let the waiting play out and had tried to force something to happen, I can see that I would have found myself with a lesser desirable outcome – that what He designed for me was far better than what I would have designed for myself.

Interestingly, the dictionary paints “waiting” in a positive light, indicating that we “stay in a place of expectation”, and that we “look forward expectantly.” I admit, that’s a difficult mindset to have when you can’t see the way forward, and like to be in control, but with the examples we all have from our lives where the waiting produced something beautiful, looking forward expectantly is the perspective I want to have.

As you look forward expectantly, may your seasons of waiting cultivate a life filled with confidence, courage, and joy!