waiting

Learning to wait is a grace for a woman who fears God. Waiting with a gentle spirit is a miracle–a beauty, an acquired habit that comes with practice and experience. Choosing to take today in its stride–choosing to see the glory of the moment in the midst of frantic children, choosing to look for beauty and the fingerprints of God in the midst of the messes requires a heart decision–Psalm 27 says, “Let your heart take courage–let it–make it, choose to let your heart fill up its boots to the power of God’s abiding grace. Choosing to believe that my prayers have not hit the roof of my home and gone no further, but that God indeed is present.

from "The Never Ending Issues of Life- how to endure gracefully" by Sally Clarkson's blog I Take Joy, 27 June 2011

(art credit: Waiting for the Boats by Philippe Lodowyck Jacob Frederik Sadee, 1881)