Waiting is hard.
Waiting for a cake to cool before you can eat it, roller coasters, boxing day customer service line, traffic – fill in the blank here. And who here loves the opportunity to sharpen those skills? I mean just ceases that opportunity and the first thing you say to yourself is 'Capitol A-Awesome! A little time to just be still!' Cudos to all who can.
For the most part I can handle waiting for the small things (minus the cake being cooled…who's with me?). A reoccurring and continued life lesson God is always reminding me on is being still. And not just being lazy but learning how to soak in life moments. Delighting myself in them. Listening to Him to figure out, 'God, what do you want to teach me in the moment that feels like eternity?' Among a smattering of other items I am working on is trust in the waiting.
On Tuesday last week when I was walking to my Ultrasound… Side note – God rocked my world with that appointment. Thank you for all who prayed! First phone call I made to a clinic a 10 minute walk away had an appointment! So back to the walking… I was talking with God and was telling Him that I was really nervous about getting a surgery date on time. That I was just anxious in general to get back to my team and it would break my heart to not finish out the year with them. Then I very clearly heard Him say to me, 'I created the world in 7 days, whole and perfect. I think I've got this.'
Oh right…
So now I wait for my doctors office to call with results and an appointment to meet the surgeon. Who even likes first dates anyways? I'm happy to skip that step and go right to the surgery.
Oh right…
Trust in waiting and prayer. Won't you join me? Even though entirely different circumstances to this verse in which David is expressing, the words still hold true. Psalms 37:7 – Be still in the Lord and wait patiently for Him.
On the small victories list… On a trip to the Americas to find some variety of fat free food and I found shredded cheese. Also got to hold my new nephew for the first time (big victory). Oh, yah. 🙂
