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Words for the Hard Place
Part of the challenge of God in the wilderness is not to fight the work God is doing in our lives, but to allow ourselves to be held in the wilderness waiting. This is another promise God is making to the Israelites: When you feel stalled in the same place, know that waiting is part of the process. The pillar will move again when the time is right. I am with you in the waiting. Throughout their wa
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“There is a holiness to the waiting, and that holiness is held together by that most familiar of strangers—God, and God’s love. And so it is Love—that one most acquainted with suffering and with grief—who meets us in the place of our deepest loneliness, the ground of our waiting. And if we have enough strength to bend our ear low enough to the ground and hear just one thing whispered to us out of all that Silence, may it be this: what we are waiting for is not Something, but Someone.”
― Hope in the Wilderness: Spiritual Reflections for When God Feels Far Away
― Hope in the Wilderness: Spiritual Reflections for When God Feels Far Away
“There is a holiness to the waiting, and that holiness is held together by that most familiar of strangers—God, and God’s love. And so it is Love—that one most acquainted with suffering and with grief—who meets us in the place of our deepest loneliness, the ground of our waiting. And if we have enough strength to bend our ear low enough to the ground and hear just one thing whispered to us out of all that Silence, may it be this: what we are waiting for is not Something, but Someone.”
― Hope in the Wilderness: Spiritual Reflections for When God Feels Far Away
― Hope in the Wilderness: Spiritual Reflections for When God Feels Far Away
