so we sit and wait...

I'd like to think I'm not an impatient person but lately, I have felt that my life includes lots of waiting...for the kids bedtime, at the doctor's office, at the store check out line, the crying to stop, Kris to come home from work, to pick up my son from school to nice weather again.

This is all daily stuff but then there is waiting for the special days to come each year (kiddos' birthdays), for the seasons to change, for the special documents in the mail to actually travelling to meet our baby.

I am trying to make an effort to let these waiting times to be lessons for me. To look beyond myself to others around me, to thank God and pray for situations in my life and and what is happening around me while I 'wait'.

Waiting is the time God uses to prepare my life, my mind for what He has planned for me.

Waiting is a time when I lean on Him, and know that His hand is at work...and it's all about His timing.

I wait for the Lord, my soul waits, and is his word, I put my hope. (Psalms 130:5)

But today, I saw my youngest waiting patiently...

...waiting for her brother to get home from school to play with her and for her time to be a big sister...!!! I was encouraged seeing her hope. She believes that her brother and baby will come come. I too want her hope as I trust and wait.

Whatever I am waiting for, the known and the unknown, my hope is in the Lord!