Hope & Question

waiting

Yet this I call to mind and therefore I have hope: Because of the Lord's great love we are not consumed, for his compassions never fail. They are new every morning; great is your faithfulness. I say to myself, "The Lord is my portion; therefore I will wait for him." The Lord is good to those whose hope is in him, to the one who seeks him; It is good to wait quietly for the salvation of the Lord. Lamentations 3:21-26

After three days of sitting and waiting, sleeping and resting, I'm ready to get on with things. Knee surgery went well and for that I'm truly thankful. I'm already able to put some weight on it. But waiting on it is the hard part. Of course I want to just wake up tomorrow morning and be able to do life as normal. But I get to thinking about that, and my life isn't really normal these days. That's what's making all of this harder, I think. When I'm done waiting to get healed, I'll be waiting for God to reveal the 'what next.' I'll be waiting for God to bring a mate into my life. I'll be waiting to see where I'll be living. Seems like it's just more of the same. So the physical waiting is kind of like a practice run for the rest of my life for the time being, anyway.
I've been disappointed with how I've handled this whole waiting thing, the resting in God thing, the not knowing thing. My heart's desire is the scripture above, and above all else to put Christ above all else and love others above all else, especially myself.
Just needed to get that out and remind myself whose I am and what I'm to be about...

posted by Loren @ 8:06 PM