The Holy Spirit's Family Room

Sometimes all we can do is wait, just get through it. “It” can be a difficult diagnosis, it can be an injury. It can be a trauma in our lives like a divorce or the death of a loved one. Uncertainty hangs heavy, and we want to move on, but the message we get from God is just wait. Just be here. Be patient as my plan for you unfolds. We can’t do anything to hurry it, or we have already done everything we can. Yet we pray and our friends pray that God would take this uncertain time away. Sometimes the prayers need to be prayers for peace of heart instead, as we are in this time of not knowing. Sometimes not knowing can be God’s way of reminding us to sit down quietly and place our trust in him, instead of in our own ability to fix things, and make things better. Sometimes all the prayers offered for our healing turn out to be effective and joy-bringing during this time of not being clear what God‘s plan is. God‘s plan could be anything! It could be dying in the next hour. It could be dying two months down the road it, could be dying in five years. It could be a total healing, a miraculous healing where there is no trace of the woundedness. It could be anything in between and we don’t know and we won’t know until that time. The scary thing is we don’t have an expiration date, we don’t have a guarantee that we will be able to know in advance  The waiting time is a time of powerlessness and humility. It’s a time of trusting, it’s a time to open our heart to the Holy Spirit who inhabits every moment, who is with us always. We go back to the scriptures where Jesus says “My load is easy and my burden is light.” Join that with the other scripture that says, “I am with you always.” The way we handle the heavy burden of woundedness is by taking each of our moments as a gift from God and lifting them up to him. Thank you, Lord, for coming to save us. Thank you, holy God father, for creating us. Thank you, Holy Spirit, whose gift of love and tenderness will be with us even in the most trying of times. We place our trust in you, Lord, and lift our hearts to you. We rejoice that you are with us always.