When You Grow Weary in the Waiting
Even though I’m contracted for my first novella, there are moments of lulls in my writing life. Moments when I want to move forward, but I can’t for one reason or another. It’s a part of the writer’s life…waiting. Right now I’m waiting on the Writer…Interrupted blog to launch so I can rebuild my platform. It was supposed to launch a year ago, then January of this year, now, who knows?
The waiting is hard, but I don’t have to be idle. And I don’t have to worry. I’m trying to remind myself while I wait!
I wrote this post two years ago. March 2009. It’s still relevant today…
“For I know the plans I have for you,” declares the Lord, “plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future.” Jeremiah 29:11 NIV
It’s happening again. I’m growing weary in the waiting. Why? Because it’s taking too long, and while I’m waiting others around me seem to be getting the very things I’ve been waiting for.
We’ve been waiting for our home to sell… five or six months now…I lost track.
I’ve been waiting for my book to sell… six months now…
I’ve been waiting for other things, more personal things like for God to do a work in my heart and family once and for all. Still waiting!
And I’m growing weary…almost ready to give up on my dream, but what keeps me going is wondering if the moment I give up is when God has something wonderful for me. So what do I do in the meantime?
I cry and I whine and God listens…then I cry some more, dry my eyes, and suck it up. God knows best, and if he’s not giving me the desires of my heart, it’s for a reason.
It’s for a good reason.
I have to believe that! I have to or else I’d go insane waiting and wondering when my time will come.
So while I’m waiting yet another minute, another hour, another day, I will rest in the truth of the song I wrote about twenty years ago, when I was waiting…
I know the plans that I have laid for you, for welfare and for hope.
Your future is so clear to me, so far beyond your scope.
And all ask is that you trust me child, and know I’m in control.
Just take my hand and I will lead you on, I’ll never let you go.
How do you deal with the waiting?
