The Path of Waiting
Dear Reader,
Oh, how I wish I could tell you that this month has been full of passionate work or rivetting adventure for me, that the deepest longings of my heart have finally learned my name and are in my hands, but I cannot for that would be a gross exaggeration of a much simpler truth; I am on the path of waiting and God is revealing.
I honestly don’t know where to begin. I’ve written you a dozen times, but the words nor the timing ever seemed quite right, still begin I must.
This current portion of my story is just as nuanced as I am and has kept me either on the edge of my seat, on my knees in prayer or letting my tears pair with groanings to do the praying for me. Not just this month, but this season has been different from every other page before it because I’ve come to see the sacrifice of death differently.
I am no stranger to suffering or to a type of rebirth as I have lived more than a dozen lives because I have died more than a dozen deaths. I have learned to suffer well and how to carry a burden or wear a scar in a way that only the chosen would recognize. I do not look like what I’ve been through.
The irony of that is I look exactly like what God has guided me through.
I am the breathing evidence that God is Good and I wanted to tell you about the things I have overcome or to encourage you to hold on to God’s promises because indeed He is faithful in the most ridiculous way, but all that keeps coming up right now is how, in light of the promise, soon doesn’t come soon enough.
And that’s where I want to draw your attention because that’s the gift of this season; waiting. Ugh, it’s been the slowest death, but the Lord reminds me His blessings are weighty and the waiting is not for nothing. You can’t imagine what is really in store for you because until your deepest wounds have been healed there will always be something of the past obstructing your view. You can’t fathom what God is doing because His ways always confound the wise and are intentionally inconvenient, still they never waiver from being good and perfect.
Here’s a truth; You can only wait on what is already determined as yours and that only comes by a word from God - everything else is a matter of hope and while hope is not a bad thing, this letter is to tell you You are never waiting on God, He’s been waiting on you all along.
Wherever you are in your life with Christ I encourage you to ask God to remind you of His word to you. Ask Him for the strength to surrender and the strength to do the hard yet necessary things as He brings your life into alignment with His perfect will. Ask Him to restore whatever was abandoned, naively traded, lost, or damaged in your life. Know that I pray His spirit of wisdom be with you and new beginnings for you in every area.
The wait is weighty because the gift is valued even more.
Grace & Peace,
LORI LaChelle