The Ebb Tide

by Beverly Lewis

“Following God’s will sometimes leads us on a quiet, lonely path. Everyone surrounding us is skittering about in other directions—any which way but the one we’re going. And sometimes even we misunderstand our own course . . . that risk makes it all the more key to wait for divine direction.”

“Oh jah—some people can spend years and never find one like this. I’d nearly given up on finding even a small one.” Frannie nodded thoughtfully. “That’s often when we stumble onto something exceptional.”

It had to do with God not always giving people what they want, or think they want. “Havin’ to wait gives us time to learn that He’s always standing with us, teaching constant love and patience, until we finally come to the point of prayin’, ‘Thy will be done,’”