Waiting
What are you waiting for? Waiting has got to be one of the most difficult things. If there is anything I have learned, it's that I am not very good at predicting or even accurately sensing how long something might take.
I am pretty good at discerning a lot of things, but not timing.
When things feel IMMINENT it usually means there are a few more years in the waiting.
And that just may be an understatement...
I wonder if we confuse that sense of 'it must be now' with simply the passion that happens within ourselves when we grab hold of a vision.
'It must be now' can easily turn into years and years.
And not by any mistake or ill-design. Quite the opposite in fact.
The time that it takes from a vision's inception and from a declared course of action is critical to the success and fruition of what is coming.
The passion required to stay the course, cooperating with a vision, sticking to our guns as we continue to 'declare' is exactly the type of character development that visions require.
Waiting is the birth-place of visions set to last the test of time, for if vision can stand the test of waiting, it can stand the tests of time.
Posted by Cyndy Lavoie at January 27, 2012 10:36 AM 
Categories: Life, Courageous
Tags: waiting character development developing character vision visionary passion
Categories: Life, Courageous
Tags: waiting character development developing character vision visionary passion
Cyndy, I am living this right now! What God placed as a dream in 2007 is finally coming to pass in 2012... Prenatal and Postpartum care for women living in Nyabisindu slum. A place for women to find support, care, love and encouragement as they face challenges as expectant mothers in a low resource setting. My heart is full, but the journey to get here has been incredible and full of relationships that have brought this dream into reality. It was a long wait, but SO worth it!
Thanks for writing this.
Love from us here in Rwanda... Jocelyn
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It is very exciting to see your long-held vision coming to be. Love the pic's you've posted. We declare God's blessings and peace and bounty over this place and the hearts that will come through the doors. It is amazing how we wait for these things and then so amazed when they happen! Blessings and hugs to yourselves... one day I may swing your way for a visit!
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Hi Cyndy.
first I din't think I had a reply for your post , then I read Jocelyn..and it came to me thinking about yesterday at Cedar Grove while listening to the Watoto choir from Africa... and it reminded me of when I was maybe between the age of 8-10 years old back home in My own town in New Brunswick . we had some missionaries come from africa to show us about the children in Africa and I at that age thought how would I go about going to Africa? and see those children, a child's thinking for my part.
but I was shy and I had no encouragement from people close to me so the dream died for a lot of years.
but today I'm thinking that God had not forgotten my dream and he is making it happen this year in giving me the want to do that but it's not in Africa he wants me to go , it's the place he has chosen and I'm willingly going .
I'm looking forward to seeing you on wednesday..... take care
jeannine
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I LOVE hearing this Jeannine!! I am sure that almost everyone has a dream tucked away in the back of their minds, and yet how often do we discount them and think them nothing. Part of the privilege of being adults is we get to reconnect with those child passions which actually, are a lot more accurate than we give them credit! Bless you and bless you, see you later!!
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