You need to know something about me: I have never been a wait-and-see kind of girl. However, after the two years of failing conceive, I wondered if I would ever sing the childhood rhyme, “First comes love, then comes marriage, then comes Wendy with a baby carriage.” Dream number three required me to wait and see. My first two dreams came to pass just as I had planned.
Dream came true.īecoming a mother requires … well, you know what it requires. Dream came true.īecoming a wife requires a fella. When I graduated from high school, I was ready to put my plans in motion.īecoming a teacher requires four years of college. Caring for my dolls, as well as my years of babysitting, prepared me for motherhood.
Carol Brady of The Brady Bunch taught me all I needed to know about being a wife. With chalk in hand and glasses resting on my nose, I practiced being a teacher with my stuffed animals. My little-girl heart dreamed of being all of these one day. Our focus moves from the object of our wait to the Person of our faith.A teacher. As we wait, we find peace in God’s plans and hope in His pauses. 64:4) and that He does immeasurably more than we can think or imagine ( Eph. “We learn to trust that God acts on behalf of those who are willing to wait and see ( Isa. “The wait is more about experiencing God than enduring the delay.” ( source) “can we dare say to Him, ‘Show me what You have planned. Without realizing it, we exchange the Person of our faith for the object of our wait.” ( source) “When we value the things we wait on more than we value the commands of the Lord-not to worry, to accept His peace, to live by faith-we lose sight of what’s really important: our relationship with God. Waiting well means I remain open to God and allow Him to move me toward the future He has planned, in His time.” ( source) “Waiting well looks forward to the future while staying present in the present.
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