Waiting.

"Meanwhile, the moment we get tired in the waiting, God's Spirit is right alongside helping us along. If we don't know how or what to pray, it doesn't matter. He does our praying in and for us, making prayer out of our wordless sighs, our aching groans. He knows us far better than we know ourselves, knows our pregnant condition, and keeps us present before God. That's why we can be so sure that every detail in our lives of love for God is worked into something good" (Romans 8:26-28, The Message Bible).

We are still waiting. Standing strong, but still waiting. Some days, it feels like we are in mid-air, flying in a holding pattern. Mia has made much progress since October, but what is the next step? Stop her meds next month? Continue her special diet? For how long? Start adding things back in to her diet and see what happens? Am I ready for that and for what may happen? I don't know. So, we are waiting on God for the next step.

However, even in the midst of our "waiting period," God continues to lift us up and encourage us - even at our lowest moments.

Yesterday, Mia met with her OT again. The therapist comes to the church once a week where Mia is in the nursery across the hall from my office. Mia had a great session and did very well with her exercises. At the end of the session, her therapist said to me, "I have a question...and it is not related to Mia's session." She proceeded to ask me about our church and what we believe. I saw the open door and began to tell her all about our church and what we believe and about having a personal relationship with God. She has two teenage daughters at home and seemed very open to everything I was telling her. It was an awesome opportunity to be able to share with her.

After the session, I got to thinking...maybe God has a purpose for this waiting period? I don't think it is an accident that these three therapist have been "assigned" to Mia. Perhaps God has another plan that I hadn't even considered. :)

In the midst of our darkest moments, God always has a way of working the situation into something good. Sometimes, waiting isn't so bad after all.