Prayer & Waiting

"I pray to God - my life a prayer - and wait for what he'll say and do." (Psalm 130:5)

One of the hardest things for me in my prayer life is the whole waiting thing. It's not easy to wait...on anything...especially for answers to prayers.

By nature, I'm an impatient person. Honestly, I think a lot of us are impatient. We live in a society that wants bigger, better, and faster. We want immediate gratification...no one wants to wait for anything. If our service is slow at a restaurant, we complain and often leave less of a tip. If we have to wait in line at the store, we get a little moody. If traffic is jammed up and we can't drive as fast as we'd like, we get a bit of road rage. If our computer is running slowly, we like to swear at it and kick it. I haven't even started to skim the surface here.

And, when we pray, we want immediate action. We want God to fix, heal, move, act, change things now!

In my 30 years on this earth, I've started to learn that often times the periods of waiting are the times when God is in the process of fixing, healing, moving, acting, changing. We're too often set on exactly what we think should happen and when it should happen that we fail to see and hear what God is doing and saying to us.

Waiting can be difficult...But, it can be the most wonderful thing in the world!

Pray and wait...see what God will say and do! Seems like a pretty good idea!