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Listened to a wonderful message and reminder, by Jeanne Stevens, titled The Long Way Around: Why God Waits. Jeanne’s message goes straight to my heart… reminding us of how our waiting is purposeful, even if our perspective does not always see it as such. She reminds us that God loves waiting, and that we are the ones who struggle with it, and that God sees waiting differently than we do. We see it as an in between place, in between where we are and where we think we want to be… while God on the other hand sees it with the perspective of a transformative place. Jeanne said that God is in the wait. At the end, Jeanne mentioned a quote by author of “When the Heart Waits”, Sue Monk Kidd that was very stirring to me:
Transformations come, only as we go the long way around. Only as we’re willing to walk a different, longer, more arduous, more inward, more prayerful route. When you wait, you’re deliberately choosing to take the long way. To go eight blocks instead of four, trusting that there’s a transforming discovery lying along the way.
A while ago, a friend of mine talked about taking the back roads and how he actually preferred them as they in and of themselves were quite possibly the link to inspiration or a deeper quiet that needed to be inhaled. How often do we realize those opportunities?
Waiting…
waiting…
experiencing what is in the wait…
finding God’s presence and purpose as we struggle with our inability to rest in the wait…
not forcing our own solution, or confine God into a toothpick box…
Just wait…
Can we refocus our eagerness into a wonder? Into a sweet anticipation? The wait is the link to a portion of our hearts transformation. What a great message.
