**i sent out a letter, but if you did not get it and would like to get it please e-mail me. i'll send it to you quickly**
it's hard to be in the waiting room as my dear friend KS says. the waiting room of life sometimes takes just a minute, but other times it could just go on forever.
i've had my share of waiting rooms... waiting room for college... waiting room for job... waiting room for husband... waiting room for a baby... waiting rooms... and i just think of what our posture is like in those waiting rooms... are we walking back and forth not being able to sit down, worried and nervous of what is to come... or are we sitting down on the nice leather sofa and enjoying what's going on now and trusting that what is to come will be good, because it's from our Father?
i know in my past waiting rooms, i was up pacing back and forth... worried, filled with thoughts... filled with what's next... filled with what if nothing good would come of this... but now as i find myself in different waiting rooms... i find myself, initially getting up to pace and the Lord reminding, either through His word or through friends, that i should just sit down, relax and enjoy Him...
i am currently in the waiting room of a house. i have lived in this apartment for a little over two months now. i enjoy it here, but just feel like maybe my time is up and i'm eager to move... yet the Lord keeps saying no. there are houses that open up and He doesn't give me peace... and i just ask Him, "how long do you want me to be here in this room with A, cramming all we own in one wardrobe and one room?" and He just smiles and says wait, I have something even better coming your way. it's hard... whatever He's got up His sleeve, i know is better than the houses that have come my way... but dude seriously it's soooooooo hard to wait patiently.
and in the midst of this, the Lord keeps taking me back to Psalm 37: 3-7.... the promises that He gave me...
"Trust in the LORD and do good; dwell in the land and enjoy safe pasture. Delight yourself in the LORD and he will give you the desires of your heart. Commit your way to the LORD; trust in him and he will do this: He will make your righteousness shine like the dawn, the justice of your cause like the noonday sun. Be still before the LORD and wait patiently for him..."
the words in bold are the things that i need to do... and the italic is what the LORD promises...
so in this waiting room, and we all know that sometimes we are in more than one waiting room at a time, i want to do my part and trust that the LORD will fulfill HIS promises to me!! He has been nothing but good to me... Thank you Lord...
