Waiting...

So life has been full of a lot of waiting lately...who am I kidding, life has been full of waiting for most of my life...have I learned the lesson of patience yet?....NOPE!

Not too many years ago, I was having to learn to wait for God to bring the right man in my life.
Then once I found the PERFECT man, I had to wait for him to propose.
My life with mom the past 6 years has been constant waiting and seeing (will treatment work, will surgery go ok, what will the doctors say? etc...)
Once Tyler and I got married, we had a perfect little boy...but I also got pretty impatient at the end of my pregnancy to meet him.
We've had a lot of waiting too for the right jobs to come along over the years.
Waiting, waiting, waiting some more...

What I have learned, even if I haven't learned patience yet :-), is that waiting on God's perfect plan involves also waiting on His timing. I needed to be right where I was when I met Tyler and the same for him...it was perfect timing for when Tyler proposed and we got married because both of our moms were both healthy and able to enjoy the event...mom was expected to live 1 year and has instead lived 6 and a half (I'll take all that waiting all over again if it means I can keep her for another 6 and a half)...my little man came along and was absolutely perfect in every way (which might not have happened if he had come much earlier)...and every job my husband and I have taken have all been what ended up leading to new and different opportunities than we might have ever imagined for ourselves.

What is clear...God has a plan and a purpose...WAITING on His timing is critical.

(I write this post today for all of my wonderful girlfriends, who I know so very well! Some of you are much better than me at waiting and some of you may chuckle and say this is just what I needed to be reminded of today too.)

Love you all!