Encouragement in the waiting

Many of these posts are about waiting.  Because that's where we are in this journey.  But as I read the other day, waiting is active. It's not just sitting around lamenting the fact that nothing is happening.  Quite the contrary.  Sometimes it is in the wait that the most is happening.   It is in the wait that we are being shaped and molded.  In the book Couples Who Pray (Rushnell & DuArt), it was emphasized that while prayers aren't always answered immediately, it doesn't mean that God doesn't hear.

It's in the waiting that God does the work.  And in the waiting, He's building your faith.  As promised, "Faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen."  Hebrews 11:1

If you are waiting, too,  please go and read The beauty of waiting on Wilderness Pathways. 

There is hope in the waiting. Don’t miss out on the beauty of becoming, the aching beauty of the silence, as you wait. God has promised and planned. It is worth the wait – and sometimes, it is in the waiting itself that we discover just what it is we are waiting for. - Wilderness Pathways

As hard as it is to be in the waiting season, there is beauty in it that I wouldn't want to miss.