tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-346093270409197696.post2151981660437749522..comments2024-01-21T23:07:06.218-06:00Comments on Living, Laughing, Loving, Learning: waitingAndysbethyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04005340108039880872noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-346093270409197696.post-40317987974310211692009-05-26T20:17:51.232-05:002009-05-26T20:17:51.232-05:00praying with you. i needed that as well - as i co...praying with you. i needed that as well - as i continue to wait for the husband and children i hope will someday come and be the wife and mommy i so long to be.Abigailhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00494463899629581453noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-346093270409197696.post-23988222251671090292009-05-24T18:49:23.180-05:002009-05-24T18:49:23.180-05:00Don't know the author... but thought you would app...Don't know the author... but thought you would appreciate it. :)<br /><br />"Desperately, helplessly, longingly, I cried.<br />Quietly, patiently, lovingly God replied.<br />I pled and I wept for a clue to my fate,<br />And the Master so gently said, “Child, you must wait!”<br /><br />“Wait?, you say, wait!” my indignant reply.<br />“Lord, I need answers, I need to know why!<br />Is Your hand shortened? Or have You not heard?<br />By faith I have asked, and am claiming Your Word.”<br /><br />“My future and all to which I can relate<br />Hangs in the balance, and You tell me to wait?<br />I’m needing a ‘yes,’ a go-ahead sign,<br />Or even a ‘no’ to which I can resign.”<br /><br />“And Lord, You promised that if we believe<br />We need but to ask, as we shall receive.<br />And Lord, I’ve been asking, and this is my cry:<br />I’m weary of asking! I need a reply!”<br /><br />Then quietly, softly, I learned of my fate<br />As my Master replied once again, “You must wait.”<br />So, I slumped in my chair, defeated and taut<br />And grumbled to God, “So, I’m waiting…for what?”<br /><br />He seemed then to kneel and His eyes wept with mine,<br />And He tenderly said, “I could give you a sign.<br />I could shake the heavens, and darken the sun.<br />I could raise the dead, and cause mountains to run.<br />All you seek, I could give, and pleased you would be.<br />You would have what you want…but, you wouldn’t know Me.”<br /><br />“You’d not know the depth of My love for each saint;<br />You’d not know the power that I give to the faint;<br />You’d not learn to see through the clouds of despair;<br />You’d not learn to trust just by knowing I’m there;<br />You’d not know the joy of resting in Me<br />When darkness and silence were all you could see.”<br /><br />“You’d never experience that fullness of love<br />As the peace of My Spirit descends like a dove;<br />You’d know that I give and I save … (for a start),<br />But you’d not know the depth of the beat of My heart.”<br /><br />The flow of My comfort late into the night,<br />The faith that I give when you walk without sight,<br />The depth that’s beyond getting just what you asked<br />Of an infinite God, who makes what you have last.”<br /><br />“You’d never know, should your pain quickly flee,<br />What it means that ‘My grace is sufficient for thee.’<br />Your dreams for your loved ones overnight would come true,<br />But, oh, the loss! if I lost what I’m doing in you!”<br /><br />“So, be silent, my child, and in time you will see<br />That the greatest of gifts is to get to know Me<br />And though oft may My answers seem terribly late,<br />My wisest of answers is still but to wait”Charityhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09481279823056818210noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-346093270409197696.post-62265098885012919992009-05-22T18:55:02.455-05:002009-05-22T18:55:02.455-05:00Thanks for sharing that Bethany. I needed to read ...Thanks for sharing that Bethany. I needed to read that today as well!Marcyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13371466610431264666noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-346093270409197696.post-22336687444366582062009-05-22T10:01:58.826-05:002009-05-22T10:01:58.826-05:00Hang in there B! I love you!!!Hang in there B! I love you!!!EmileeHopehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14178204754718165308noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-346093270409197696.post-49068616321112029132009-05-21T21:07:10.201-05:002009-05-21T21:07:10.201-05:00Amen...the Master will not be late...beautiful poe...Amen...the Master will not be late...beautiful poem!Karenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08788724686085310730noreply@blogger.com