That ''w" word...

Lately, Kylie has been super interested in going to the roof to watch the sun go down each day.  I'm not sure if it's for the 'rooftop adventure', the little break away from the crazy, or if she really does enjoy watching the sun go down but one day last week she asked me if we could get up early to watch the sun... ummm... rise.  

I rarely ever get up before an alarm goes off and more often than not, I snooze well after the alarm has alarmed.  

I'm a night owl.  

Not an early-morning-chipper-sunrise-watcher type person.

But the moments I have with our Kylie, just the 2 of us, are few and far between so I said if she actually got up (cause she has been known to be the latest riser of our 4 littles) then I would get up and go with her.  

Don't judge me but I totally banked on the fact that when she was nudged in the dark that she would roll over and grunt at me and drift back into slumber, allowing me to do the same.  

Yeh, so when I got up and nudged her on the bunk above me, telling her it was almost 6 a.m., she bounced up like a real live Tigger.

I grabbed my camera because, well, there would be a sunrise and I should capture that and off we went.

But I was captured instead.

Watching her wait for the sun to rise was as much a delight to me as actually seeing the anticipated sun rise.

And it hit me... 

    as I watched my daughter,  I saw myself.

       Waiting...not just for a sunrise but for so much more.

The past year has been hard...

And many times I've been ready to gear up and go, 

but God has said 'wait'.  

SO MANY stinkin' times He has said 'wait'!!

The fog was so thick and seemed to be holding back that thing that we had gotten up so early to see and I began to think that the morning we chose to get up might have been a 'dud'.  

And then there in the middle of my doubts, it was happening... 

The sun was in fact rising...and our waiting was not in vain.  

I've never known waiting to be easy at any stage in life but I have found that waiting is the best place to be when that's what we hear from the One who makes the sun rise.

And also this...

    there is so much beauty in the waiting...

        if we will trust Him.

Whatever you are waiting for... take note of the things around you that beckon thanks and rest in knowing that He has NOT EVER ONCE  forgotten you in the 'wait'. 

Like a wide-winged eagle waiting for a thermal current to carry it heavenward, you must stay in God's presence with your heart attuned to Him.  Do you have duties and demands?  Yes, but none as important as this.  Why?  Because you understand that if you don't get into God's presence and stay there until He refreshes and restores you, you won't make it. ~Word For You Today

"Those who wait upon God get fresh strength." 

Isaiah 40:31