Waiting.  For such a passive activity, it requires so much of us.  And, I think in our culture--we tend to think this requires TOO much of us.  Our family loves Tim Hawkins, and totally laugh at his jokes about the Taco Bell Express he saw--because regular Taco Bells take too long?!  Truly, we live in this fast food, fast internet, instant gratification society. There's an app for everything to make everything easier...even for waiting!  How useful we found the Disney app to help us plan our trips to the parks this summer so we knew how long the waits were.  So we could avoid the long wait.  Because WHO wants to wait--for ANYTHING?

Yet, most of us are in a position of waiting right now.  Most of us are waiting for something--for those who believe, we are waiting for answers and movement by the Lord in our lives.  We have dear friends waiting on a career move.  Not just any career move, but a new job halfway around the world that will dramatically alter their entire family's lives.  They are waiting with no clear answers on how long this wait might be.  Or, how about someone I love dearly who has been waiting on the Lord to bless her with a baby--for years now?  She has endured this wait with patience and faith, sometimes anxious and in process with fertility treatments.  Other times, resting on what the next step might be.  Several friends right now are enduring very difficult seasons with their children, and they are waiting for their storms to pass.  Personally, I am waiting on the Lord to show me the next season for me--besides mothering and being a wife--where, how and when does He want to move on these dreams and ideas I have?  I have a taste of how He might want to use me, but no open doors.  And, for now, I feel Him gently tell me to embrace the mundane and wait--I feel Him encourage me that no eye has seen, no ear has heard, no mind can conceive what He has for those who love Him (1 Corinthians 2:9).

As I was reading my Bible last week, I was awestruck by a fresh mind-numbing revelation that I had NEVER read in this exact Scripture that I had claimed and marked and stood upon during many seasons of my life.  My Bible is marked up next to this verse.