Comments on: Learning to wait with Jesus https://transformingcenter.org/2015/12/learning-wait-jesus/ Strengthen The Soul Of Your Leadership Tue, 15 Dec 2015 23:41:24 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9 By: Diana Myhre https://transformingcenter.org/2015/12/learning-wait-jesus/#comment-661366 Tue, 15 Dec 2015 23:41:24 +0000 https://transformingcenter.org/?p=6217#comment-661366 Adele, how lovely to read your reflections. It is so hard to wait and esp to trust that God does have everything in His timing and in His hands. We so want to take back control!
Merry Christmas from us at the Well too!

]]> By: Adele Calhoun https://transformingcenter.org/2015/12/learning-wait-jesus/#comment-661286 Mon, 14 Dec 2015 16:04:00 +0000 https://transformingcenter.org/?p=6217#comment-661286 In reply to Deema.

I don’t get God’s timing. And yet sometimes it seems God’s timing is all about waiting. May you be expectant as you wait in hope.

]]> By: Adele Calhoun https://transformingcenter.org/2015/12/learning-wait-jesus/#comment-661285 Mon, 14 Dec 2015 16:02:10 +0000 https://transformingcenter.org/?p=6217#comment-661285 In reply to Gerry.

Avoidance is a way of waiting without getting any of the benefit of waiting. It keeps you away from the reality that is — and that is the only place to meet God. May you find God in the waiting.

]]> By: Adele Calhoun https://transformingcenter.org/2015/12/learning-wait-jesus/#comment-661283 Mon, 14 Dec 2015 16:01:04 +0000 https://transformingcenter.org/?p=6217#comment-661283 In reply to Kathryn christensen.

May you find transformation does come as you wait. The waiting creates space — space for God and space for you.

]]> By: Sibyl Towner https://transformingcenter.org/2015/12/learning-wait-jesus/#comment-661102 Fri, 11 Dec 2015 03:32:34 +0000 https://transformingcenter.org/?p=6217#comment-661102 Hi Adele, Thank you for this post and it timeliness not only for me, but others that I have forwarded it to to will benefit from reading and reflecting on this invitation to wait with expectancy and with hope. So glad that the new Disciplines Handbook is out. Hope that you are feeling good about it as well. A Blessed Christmas to you and Doug. Sibyl

]]> By: Lilyane Bienert https://transformingcenter.org/2015/12/learning-wait-jesus/#comment-660983 Wed, 09 Dec 2015 18:57:29 +0000 https://transformingcenter.org/?p=6217#comment-660983 Thank you for these timely words! Waiting is so hard and it is such a test of character for me. I am so thankful that when I fail waiting opportunities that God is gracious and forgives and still answers my prayers in His own time and way and it is good! Hallelujah, what a Saviour! Hallelujah, what a Friend! Saving, helping, keeping loving, He is with me to the end!

]]> By: Deema https://transformingcenter.org/2015/12/learning-wait-jesus/#comment-660938 Wed, 09 Dec 2015 03:43:25 +0000 https://transformingcenter.org/?p=6217#comment-660938 This was right on time! I have been in a phase of waiting because our house is being sold and we have nowhere to go. I’ve been running around like a chicken with my head cut off trying to get my family and I into a new place. Nothing has came through or worked out so it is just time to wait and see what God has planned for us. Thank you!

]]> By: Sara R https://transformingcenter.org/2015/12/learning-wait-jesus/#comment-660911 Tue, 08 Dec 2015 20:13:45 +0000 https://transformingcenter.org/?p=6217#comment-660911 Thank you Adele, this is very meaningful to me. I am not good at “waiting”, but I sure desire to be!

]]> By: Gerry https://transformingcenter.org/2015/12/learning-wait-jesus/#comment-660910 Tue, 08 Dec 2015 19:04:27 +0000 https://transformingcenter.org/?p=6217#comment-660910 Nicely said … and very timely. I have discovered an anger that wells up in me with waiting … so much so, that I notice that I avoid situations that that will cause me to wait. Obviously, “avoidance” doesn’t work real well as you point out, life is entangled in waiting. I am going to do the Spiritual Exercises you gave … can’t wait to get started 🙂

]]> By: Kathryn christensen https://transformingcenter.org/2015/12/learning-wait-jesus/#comment-660899 Tue, 08 Dec 2015 14:31:52 +0000 https://transformingcenter.org/?p=6217#comment-660899 Well said. Thank you for your thoughts on the essential nature of waiting and letting it do the work of transforming us. It is an intention to see waiting as a necessary aspect of healing, maturing and reflecting the presence of Christ in us. It has the capacity to create a restful, peaceful mind, body and spirit that the world logs to experience. Your article is a gift and inspires me to awareness of the damage hurry, anger, and reactivity create. The Kingdom is brought to earth by practicing waiting as an opportunity for transformation.

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