Indian Summer

I've been down that path often, but never with such intense significance as that first and only "goodbye" experience. I thought it was forever. I wanted him back in my youthful life. Some way, somehow. And then one day the call came in answer to the desires of my heart. It led to my marriage of over fifty years. But why the wait—the anticipation?
Sometimes it's not we who are waiting. It is the Lord who waits that he may be gracious unto us. We don't understand it. We don't have to. That's the beauty and glory of serving a God who has all the answers, who fulfills our hopes and longings in his time and in his way with that slightest, but most significant, disclosure from the last part of his promise: blessed are all they that wait for him.
Isaiah 30:18. "And therefore will the Lord wait, that he may be gracious unto you, And therefore will he be exalted, that he may have mercy upon you: For the Lord is a God of judgment: blessed are all they that wait for him."
This is SO true! I know exactly what this feels like and if we trust in Him it is so worth it in the end!
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