The Adventure of Waiting

Maybe if I call what we are doing now an adventure then it will make it more fun.  What we, as a family, are doing right now is waiting.  Waiting to hear about a job for Kevin.  Waiting to hear where that job will move us.  Waiting to know where the heck we are going to have our second child and who will be delivering that said child :)!

Like the teacher dork that I am, I looked up adventure in the dictionary.  The first definition that came up was: an exciting or very unusual experience.  So it is true that I can call this "waiting" an adventure because it is definitely an unusual experience

I hope you enjoy this poem/prayer from Paul David Tripp's book Broken-Down House as much as I do:

I have come to

understand

that I am not the

author

of my own story.

My narrative

is being penned

by One

who is the defintion

of all that is

wise

loving

pure

true

and good.

But since I am

in the story but not the

author of the story

I am often called

to wait.

I wish I could say

that I wait well

but I don't.

I wish I could say

that I never question your wisdom

but I do.

So Lord

once more I ask for the

grace to wait

not only so I can get

what I'm waiting for

but so that I will become

what you want me to become as I wait.