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download the Encountering Peace mobile app where all the median and professor, once wrote that waiting is a period of learning.

The longer we wait, the more we hear about him for whom we are waiting.

When you're waiting, it seems like everything ticks, the clock, your heart, even the tapping of your fingers on a side table, just relentless ticking and tapping.

Is there anything harder than waiting?

It can feel so hopeless, can't it? But waiting is a very active part of living. And this meditation from Psalm chapter 130 will help you be aware

and hopeful as you wait, being mindful of God in the midst of the distracting, ticking,

ticking, tapping, and waiting, being hope-filled for whom you are waiting. Start by taking a

moment to settle and still your racing heart and center too on your breathing allow your mind and body and soul and

spirit to become still here to be still as you center on the awareness of god let your eyes slowly

move from open to a soft gaze to gently closed as you rest here waiting in hope.

This opening time of prayer is yours, a time to be content with what is already available to you,

what has already been prepared for you.

So approach God patiently now in this time, in your way,

and pause if you need or want a bit more time.

Continue now by responding to this passage from Isaiah chapter 26, and as I lead us, respond simply, Lord God, I hope patiently for you. In the night, my soul longs for you, O Lord. And Lord God, I hope patiently for you.

Indeed, my spirit patiently for you.

Indeed, my spirit within me seeks you diligently. Lord God, I hope patiently for you.

For only when your judgments are experienced on the earth, will the inhabitants of the

world learn righteousness?

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