Waiting for the Lord…
Lily Cathcart
May 09, 2026
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Psalm 27: 14 (NIV-UK)
14 Wait for the Lord;
be strong and take heart
and wait for the Lord.
I think it has become clear this week that I am not the most adept at waiting, or patience. I have, believe it or not, prayed for patience many times and over those times I have discovered something…when I pray for patience I am not magically given it. This is quite frankly a great disappointment.
I am in fact gifted with opportunities to grow my own patience through experience and practice. You can guess how I feel about that each time it happens!
It is as if God presents me with a door and tells me it will open when I am ready.
what’s behind it?
why can’t I open it?
can I knock it down?
pick the lock?
force it with a credit card?
There must be some shortcut. I just want to know what is on the other side so I can walk away with my curiosity satisfied. I can almost see God lovingly laughing at me with a twinkle in the eye and a knowing shake of the head. Be patient, God seems to remind me as I sit on the floor back against the door in a grump having exhausted all my potential shortcut options.
And so the time passes, as it had to anyway and I get a little more used to waiting, I relinquish a little more of my stubborn resistance to patience. And then the door opens, and I fall backwards through it into God’s arms as those kind eyes smile down at me as if to say, ‘See you can do it.’
On the other side of that door I feel a little closer to God. I feel a little closer to myself and I feel a bit more like I can do hard things if I am given the opportunity.
Prayer:
God of countless opportunities
Thank you that you always believe in us even when we do not
Help us to grow our abilities with you beside us
Catching us when we fall
Guide us to the person you know we can be with our whole hearts
Please let us rest with you once our waiting is done
Amen
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