The Key to Surviving the Wait

by Emily Conrad



The woman laughed quietly, as if embarrassed to have come across a secret. She kept her eyes on the computer screen and said, “The test reports on emotions, too. It says you’re frustrated and unsettled.”

I smiled and agreed. The test, which I had taken to help with my food sensitivities, had seen me in what often felt like an invisible war: the war of waiting. The acknowledgement was a relief I hadn't known I craved.

I had an entire journal dedicated to the topic of waiting, but back then, I didn’t pen many entries. If I had, most probably would've been uneventful. Today, nothing happened.

God is present and good to those who fear Him. He has a purpose in all our waiting. He refines and prepares us, setting us on the slow, right road, the narrow path that leads to the heights. So, when I found myself waiting on that narrow path, I knew I needed to have faith. Since there wasn't much I could do to rush things along anyway, I resigned myself to waiting.

I think a lot of us tend to do this.

Unfortunately, waiting in resignation doesn’t relieve frustration and feelings of being unsettled.
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