Waiting…

Being in a season of waiting is really hard.

It requires me to trust someone or something that is completely out of my control. It requires me to deny my over-ambitious desires to move there or start this or work there or buy that. It requires me to put my family above myself.

Waiting includes trusting that God knows better than what I think would be best. It calls me to believe that right now full-time ministry is in the future, and the present life is my 9-5 job, loving my wife and son, and serving in the church in a capacity that fits our schedule.

Waiting includes striving for contentment in the midst of constant discontentment.

I am called to just wait, be faithful in what God has placed right in front of me, take life one day at a time (or one minute at a time some days), and believe that past passions will bear future fruit.

But right now, in this moment, God says wait.

PJH