Excitement filled my heart as I waited for the day of my appointment. For months I worked hard on what I needed to prepare for. I knew I was ready. Those coveted precious fifteen minutes of being able to pitch my new book project to a literary agent of my choosing couldn’t come soon enough.
However, like a balloon poked with a pin, my excitement popped just like that. Covid got the best of me two days before my appointment, and I had to cancel.
Without my permission, frustration, discouragement, sadness, and anger briefly barged into my fragile psyche.
No doubt you, too, have felt this way at one point or another in your life. It may be from waiting for years for answers to a prayer; a deadline missed; test after test yielding a single line signaling you won’t be holding the baby you longed for in the next nine months; a missing miracle healing; or another postponement in the return of a loved one from a deployment overseas.
Whatever it is we wait for with anticipation can lead us to the dichotomous road of excitement or frustration as time drags on and we are devoid of its fulfilment. So, what are we to do?
2 Peter 3:8 is a good place to start. Unlike the way we perceive time, God’s time is not linear but transcends our worldly concept.
This truth may be difficult to understand or process and accept but we can be confident knowing our infallible God’s timing is always perfect. Then we
Reminisce God’s faithfulness.
Remember His goodness.
Rely on His Sovereignty.
And slowly we will find acceptance and contentment with hope bubbling back into our souls once again as we wait on Him once more.
Blessings and hugs.