Waiting for the right relationship is not the same as waiting for your life to begin. Every time you choose not to settle, you’re trusting that God’s plan for your heart is worth protecting, even when the waiting feels lonely.
Angel: She’s wondering if she’s asking for too much.
God: She’s asking the wrong people.
Angel: She keeps thinking she should lower her standards.
God: I didn’t teach her how valuable she is so she’d forget it the moment someone couldn’t see it.
Loneliness has a way of making almost feel like enough
Jacqueline Whitney
Angel: She’s afraid she’ll end up alone if she keeps walking away.
God: Walking away from what isn’t right has never taken her further from what is.
Angel: But she gets lonely sometimes.
God: I know. Loneliness has a way of making almost feel like enough. Stay close to her in those moments.
Angel: Will she ever stop wondering if waiting is worth it?
God: The day she experiences the kind of love she doesn’t have to beg for, question, or shrink herself to keep, she’ll understand that I wasn’t asking her to wait. I was teaching her not to settle.
Jacqueline Whitney is the author Held: A 50 Day Devotional For Parents and All That You Deserve.
