Why It's Hard to Wait on the Lord

All Things Catholic with Dr. Edward Sri

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🗓️ 9 December 2025

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Do you have an area of your life where you feel like you're waiting patiently for the Lord? Just as Advent is a liturgical season of waiting, our own lives are marked by seasons of waiting too. Dr. Sri reminds us that God often does his deepest work not in solving our problems, but in the very act of waiting.

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0:00.0	This podcast is brought to you by Ascension. To discover even more free Catholic podcasts,
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0:12.2	Hi, I'm Edwards 3 and welcome to all things Catholic, where real faith meets real life.
0:24.2	What do you do when life takes an unexpected turn?
0:27.2	Suddenly it feels as if your whole world has been turned upside down.
0:31.5	Maybe something you're hoping for, something you've been dreaming for.
0:34.7	You start to realize it's not going to turn out as you expected.
0:38.5	Or maybe a relationship that is so important to you is suddenly lost. Or you experience troubles in your
0:44.2	marriage that you never thought you'd face. Or troubles in your health, troubles in your job,
0:49.5	troubles with your kids. When we feel like the carpet has been taken out from under our feet and the very
0:55.0	structure of our existence is taken away from us. We can wonder, Lord, what's happening?
1:01.6	What's going on? When are you going to act? How long, oh Lord? How long do I have to wait for you to help me in this trial?
1:10.8	Where are you, God? Those are natural human human. How long do I have to wait for you to help me in this trial?
1:11.9	Where are you, God?
1:17.2	Those are natural human responses that we see in the scriptures.
1:21.9	If you just read the book of Psalms, it's full of the psalmist, constantly crying out to God in their moments of darkness, their moments of pain, their moments of loss, of uncertainty,
1:29.3	and they cry out, where are you,
1:36.4	God? How long, oh Lord, when will you come? And I just love this time of Advent because here,
1:41.6	in the middle of Advent, we're approaching the third Sunday of Advent, the readings we have for this upcoming Sunday, I meant to encourage us to give us hope.
1:45.7	They're all about waiting patiently on the Lord.
1:49.3	Do you have an area of your life where you feel like you're waiting patiently for the Lord?
1:52.6	You're waiting for him to come, waiting for him to act.
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