Waiting and the Answer

We try to trust that God has a plan, but we're secretly afraid that life is passing us by...

Waiting periods may lack glamour, but it's the daily grind that prepares us for life-changing events. Learn to embrace the same opportunities —call them training tools— that we have. Work. People. And a God who gets involved when He's invited.

No matter what arena of life you yearn to enter —marriage, parenthood, a career, a move— no one can prepare you for it like the people in your life today. The stranger who asks for a drink at an awkward moment will teach you to serve. The child who drives you up one wall and down the other will teach you the fine art of patience. The co-worker who dissolves into tears at the slightest provocation will teach you sensitivity and understanding. The socially awkward lady at your church can show you how to reach across barriers to find common ground.

We can't learn servanthood without people to serve. We'll never learn what love is if we don't love the people in our lives today. Humility will elude us until we see ourselves as one thread in this big tapestry called humanity.

Work keeps our hands busy during the meantime; people engage our hearts.

The big events of our life hold great significance for us, but they don't define us. The daily grind, with its hundreds of little decisions, determines who we are—and without it, we would never be ready for those stranger-at-the-well moments. Such a moment may be around the corner for you or me. In the meantime, we'd do well to stop thinking of tomorrow and start living in today.

We have daily annoyances, people who challenge us, a God to talk to, and windows that need washing. It may feel like life has yet to begin. That feeling is wrong. Life is now.

Someday you may meet your own stranger at the well, and life will take a brand new direction. Until then, you have the opportunity to learn the blessings of waiting. Like Rebekah did, you can make the most of the meantime.

Sumber (versi lengkapnya): ungrind - Rachel Starr Thomson

It's really an answer to my swirling thoughts...