Enlarged in the Waiting

All you see now is NOT all there is.

What was once summer and alive and blooming is now falling from the trees, dying, and decaying.  The dreams of summer are beginning to go dormant.

But all you see NOW is not all there is though this moment is necessary.

This transition.  A silence.  A season of what was once alive to be buried beneath the cold and quiet snow. 

There are seasons.

But we begin to lose hope when our seasons last longer than we thought they should.

Or when it doesn't LOOK like we thought it should look like.

We grasp for signs of life.  Signs of what COULD be.

But what if we could just BE in this moment here?

Once upon a time when I was in the middle of a significant transition a stranger said to me, "Don't resent the process".

Process means PROGRESS.

I had been stuck in this moment, thinking this uncomfortable place was a permanent place of residence for me.  This restlessness I was feeling was never going to end.

But it was a process.

In the process he was preparing.

He was making ME.

There were things He was fashioning within me that prepared me for the things that were ahead.  He was preparing the place I would come to.  Rearranging the circumstances in perfect order for when the time came to move into the next season.

It didn't LOOK like spring.  What it looked like was the death of dreams.  I was grieving what was.  I was fearful of all that was ahead.   I didn't feel the warmth of summer.  It was quiet.  Lonely and cold.

But in the transition He had a plan.

He ALWAYS had a plan.

My friends.....He ALWAYS has a plan.

Can you trust Him in the process?

Can you hold on to Him KNOWING there's SO.MUCH.MORE to come?  That what you see now.....is not all there is.

And we are enlarged in the waiting.

Hope is increased.

Faith swells within us as we wait.  We rest in that hope.  We TRUST in that hope.  Knowing there is a new day dawning.  Spring always comes.  But this moment here is NECESSARY.  We can kick and scream and fight it or we can embrace it knowing there is purpose even HERE. 

And there is goodness here.  Because HE is here.  It doesn't look like what you thought it would but there are other things happening.  Those things which you cannot see, happening beneath the surface.  And those things which you can see. 

He can be trusted. 

He is good.  He is KIND.  And every thing is does comes from the kindness and goodness of our loving Father.  He can only BE good.  In all of our seasons.  No matter what things look like.