Waiting with God is never the same as waiting without purpose. Even when you can’t see what he’s doing, he is preparing things you couldn’t prepare on your own, including your own heart. One day you’ll realize the season you wanted to escape became the season that made you ready.

• the waiting isn’t wasted, even when it feels like it
• the version of you being formed in the wait is the version who can carry what’s coming
• the silence you’re calling absence is often intimacy

every day you don’t give up is a day you’re proving your own faith to yourself

Jacqueline Whitney

• some of your most important growth is happening in seasons that feel like nothing is happening
• what you’re waiting for is also being prepared. it isn’t just you who has to be ready
• the timing is not a mistake. it’s a mercy
• you’re not being ignored. you’re being trusted with a wait that most people wouldn’t survive

• the pull to keep waiting is louder than the fear that it’s not coming
• every day you don’t give up is a day you’re proving your own faith to yourself
• the delay is not a reflection of your worth. it’s a reflection of the size of what’s coming

Jacqueline Whitney is the author Held: A 50 Day Devotional For Parents and All That You Deserve.