Waiting in the Desert

This summer has been busy....as you may have guessed. I tend to post less when I get busy.

Newsy item:  I had a week off to see my friends, Rosie and Kevin, get married in Winnipeg. This also meant I spent time with my family and other friends there. It was refreshing to go to a summer wedding and to have some time off in the middle of the rush. I really enjoyed the time and felt more rested getting back into camp.

Other than working and taking a week to vacation, I don't have much of an exciting life right now. I spend long days at camp and when I get home, I am pretty tired, so reading and watching movies with my housemate has become a normal routine. I have made some time to visit other friends but really I work... a lot!

I am in a season of waiting and that has been stretching. I am not really a good wait-er. I like to think I have patience and trust the Lord, but really when He asks me to wait, I have very little discipline and get very anxious. So the Lord and I are sitting together waiting. I am definitely waiting for some answers to my questions and He is definitely waiting for me to develop patience and discipline.....I am not sure who will wait longer at this point...probably the Lord.

Misty Edwards sings a song that I have been playing in my car lately. Here are the lyrics:

Oh I'm waiting in this desert

Just waiting for the rain 

Oh but I won't leave this desert 

Until I see the rain 

And I'm waiting in this wilderness 

Of promises yet fulfilled 

Oh but I won't leave this wilderness 

Until I see the rain 

I'm waiting for the rain 

Oh I'm waiting for the rain 

I'm just waiting for the rain 

Oh I'm waiting for the rain 

For I have heard the story told of a prophet who prophesied 

Of the rain that would come in the middle of a drought 

As a sign of the rain to come 

And though years have come and years have gone 

We're still waiting for the rain 

Oh but I can see the clouds gathering now 

Are you ready, are you ready for the rain? 

Open up the heavens and let it rain, 

let it rain, let it rain 

Open up the heavens and let it rain, 

let it rain, let it rain 

Open up the heavens and let it rain, 

let it rain, let it rain 

Open up the heavens and let it rain, 

Just let it rain, let it rain 

God let it rain, let it rain 

Let it rain 

I have spent weeks praying for rain in the physical and in the spiritual. I believe that the Lord will bring rain in His time, but the waiting is hard. I can't see where the rain will come from and all I see around me is brown and desolate. I am waiting for the rain.