Monday, December 3, 2012
WAITING
We are now in the church season of Advent. This is a season of waiting and of expectation. As I have been thinking on this for the last week or so, I realized that it is a true season of waiting for me. I have been praying for contentment during this time, because I tend to spend a good deal of the time during waiting seasons trying to get to the other side. Expectation is a great thing, but I have found that there are many beautiful experiences during the waiting that I miss out on when I am focused on what I expect to happen. It is very possible that I miss out completely on the joy of the "coming" of an event because it did not occur like I expected it to. Does this sound familiar? Some of the things I love about the Christmas season are the quiet opportunities it offers up for reflection. This Advent season I am going to sincerely try to be still and wait joyfully. I am going to strive not to miss out on life's joys because I am focusing on what is next in my life. I pray that I will be able to live each day in an attitude of expectation. Not the expectation that all will go as I plan, but in the expectation that God's hand is on my family and that He is working in and through our lives to bring about something beautiful.
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