Waiting upon the Lord

Growing up Mum often said to us; ‘In your patience you shall possess your soul.’

Pilgrims often journey to the ends of the earth in search of holy ground, only to find that they have never walked on anything else.” Scott Russell Sanders

Children seem to know they are on the holy ground.

Perhaps because they are closer to it—literally. Is it something about their smallness? About their inability, their need to trust for all they are given? Is that what makes them truly humble? (By which I mean, not that they think less of themselves, but think of themselves less.)

Children see rightly. 

They have a right sized view of themselves in relation to the miraculous wonder-filled holy world in which we have been set down.

They are like their Heavenly Father that way.

“Because children have abounding vitality, because they are in spirit fierce and free, therefore they want things repeated and unchanged. They always say, “Do it again”; and the grown-up person does it again until he is nearly dead.

For grown-up people are not strong enough to exult in monotony. 

But perhaps God is strong enough to exult in monotony. 

It is possible that God says every morning, “Do it again” to the sun; and every evening, “Do it again” to the moon. 

It may not be automatic necessity that makes all daisies alike; it may be that God makes every daisy separately, but has never got tired of making them.

It may be that He has the eternal appetite of infancy; for we have sinned and grown old, and our Father is younger than we.”

G K Chesterton

“From ages past no one has heard, no ear has perceived, no eye has seen any God besides you, who works for those who wait for Him.” Isaiah 64:4