Help me to trust You while I’m in life’s waiting room

At its best, our age is an age of searchers and discoverers, and at its worst,

an age that has domesticated despair and learned to live with it happily.

~~Flannery O’Connor

This morning’s prayer and meditation for Sally’s healing comes from Take Heart, Oh God: Riches from the Greatest Christian Women Writers of All Time.

Waiting. Filling time while we wait for the phone to ring and deliver the good news or get the bad news over with. Standing in line. Preparing for an event. Or simply waiting “until things get better.”

But what if the good news we wait for never comes? What if things just don’t get better? What if the waiting is meaningless? Too many people abandon hope, abandon trust, and decide, despite the contradiction, to live happily with their despair.

Christ has something far better in mind. In him, we find meaning in the waiting. While we watch our hopes fade, he is turning our eyes toward a truer hope.

While he makes us wait, we learn to trust our future dreams to him. Waiting is hard, but waiting on God means the wait will be worth it.

Prayer for Meditation

Father, help me to trust you while I’m in life’s waiting room.  

Scripture for Meditation

“For I know the plans I have for you,” says the LORD. “They are plans for good and not for disaster, to give you a future and a hope.” Jeremiah 29:11

Music for Meditation

The Lord’s Prayer (Deliver Us)

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