When Waiting Takes Time

By Ashley Wells, on October 26th, 2011

I hid my face in my husband’s shoulder and the tears started flowing heavy.

“Why is God having us wait so long”

“I just don’t understand. It is so hard, all this waiting.”

Some days it is so hard. The reality of orphans all over the world needing a home and us having four beds waiting to be filled, and yet stalled plans, is difficult.

Maybe for you it’s a house full of family, children and parents, but yet your husband is out of work and can’t find a job. Or maybe you are passionate about God’s plans for marriage and family, but He hasn’t brought you a husband yet. Or maybe you’ve felt the calling to go overseas and spread the gospel to unreached people across the globe, but for now you’re still here working through Seminary, slow and steady…

It’s hard to wait. Especially, when the waiting takes time, years even. How do you keep going?

One way I keep going is fixing my perspective on time. You see, I can easily get distracted by the ticking of the clock right in front of me, when instead I need to fix my perspective more on the grand scheme of things…

This life that we live is temporary. It is temporary and fading fast. We only get one life to live here on this earth, and in the grand scheme of things, our life is but a dot on a line.

In the total years of my life, I think I will look back and wish I wouldn’t have focused so much on what I wanted, but instead on what I had.

Because, you see, in the course of even my short life, these years will melt into the distance.

I’ll remember them, but yet they will be overshadowed by the rest of my life. The parts of my life that I spent truly living. Embracing. Enjoying.

I’ve got some moments when I do that, but I need to do that more! I need to live today and trust God for the rest. I need to focus on the here and now and let tomorrow care for itself.