Wait on the Lord
The text emphasizes the importance of waiting with expectancy in spiritual life, highlighting how true waiting fosters growth, awareness, and connection to both the past and future.
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Read Psalm 33 (“Our soul waits for the Lord. . . . Our heart is glad in him”). Consider: What am I waiting for? How is my heart filled with gladness as I reflect on creation?
Kevin O'Brien • The Ignatian Adventure: Experiencing the Spiritual Exercises of St. Ignatius in Daily Life
Ours, you see, is a posture of active waiting, in which we gratefully offer ourselves in full surrender to God to be used in his mission. As we do that, he guides.
J.D. Greear • Jesus, Continuedâ¦
We just need to be willing to watch for his working and set ourselves up to be ready to take the next step when he says go. Following the model of Christ means adhering to his timing. Sometimes Jesus pauses to point out an issue or provide a spiritual prompting. We must also learn to pause and look to see what he is doing. This requires patience as
... See moreBrandon Guindon • Intentional
Patience [is] the basic constituent of Christianity . . . the power to wait, to persevere, to hold out, to endure to the end, not to transcend one’s own limitations, not to force issues by playing the hero or the titan, but to practice the virtue that lies beyond heroism, the meekness of the lamb which is led.2
Tish Harrison Warren • Liturgy of the Ordinary: Sacred Practices in Everyday Life
As T. S. Eliot wrote, in a brilliant and painstaking way: I said to my soul, be still, and wait without hope, For hope would be hope for the wrong thing: wait without love for love would be love of the wrong thing; there is yet faith But the faith and the love and the hope are all in the waiting.