in The WAITING ROOM

I remember that a few years ago a friend of mine posted that as she and her husband were dealing with his cancer diagnosis she was waiting on God.  That insight stuck with me and now here I am, waiting.  I have not been here before but know this is exactly where God has me.  I am not sure why I am here but as I talk with friends that are also in a waiting pattern he is teaching Me, well, all of us, to trust Him.  Proverbs 3:5-6 says: "Trust in the Lord with all of your heart and DO NOT lean on your own understanding.  In all of your ways acknowledge Him and He will direct your paths."  That was the 1st verse I memorized and the verse that my agency Buckner Child and Family Services has as their verse as well.  You see, I am waiting for a child.  A child that may or may not have already been born, but will need me as their mommy. God has called me to adopt and as I write this on paper  it becomes more real.  Even more real than the home study and the countless hours in classes and getting paper work done. I am a licensed foster parent and I am expecting.  I have no idea what the gender is or when he or she or, God help me, they will come.  All I know is that God said to do it and I took a huge leap of faith and finished the classes, paperwork, fingerprints, CPR and home study and now I am ready.  Sometimes I wonder if the reason this is taking so long for me to get a child is because God didn't tell me to but, until the door is completely closed, I am going to move forward.  I am going to walk in the path He has for me and right now it is waiting.  So while I wait....I will keep singing, I will keep studying, I will keep teaching, I will keep praising him.  All of this while I wait for Him to move.

Part of Dr. Seuss's book Oh, the Places You'll Go says this: 

The Waiting Place... 

...for people just waiting. 
Waiting for a train to go 
or a bus to come, or a plane to go 
or the mail to come, or the rain to go 
or the phone to ring, or the snow to snow 
or waiting around for a Yes or a No 
or waiting for their hair to grow. 
Everyone is just waiting. 

Waiting for the fish to bite 
or waiting for wind to fly a kite 
or waiting around for Friday night 
or waiting, perhaps, for their Uncle Jake 
or a pot to boil, or a Better Break 
or a sting of pearls, or a pair of pants 
or a wig with curls, or Another Chance. 
Everyone is just waiting. 

But, God said it best. 
2 Corinthians 12: 9-10
9And He has said to me, "My grace is sufficient for you, for power is perfected in weakness." Most gladly, therefore, I will rather boast about my weaknesses, so that the power of Christ may dwell in me.10Therefore I am well content with weaknesses, with insults, with distresses, with persecutions, with difficulties, for Christ's sake; for when I am weak, then I am strong. 



Hence the title of my Blog.