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Excerpt. © Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved. Seasons of Waiting Walking by Faith When Dreams Are Delayed By Betsy Childs Howard Good News PublishersCopyright © 2016 Betsy Childs Howard All rights reserved. ISBN: 978-1-4335-4949-6 Contents Cover Page, Title Page, Copyright, Dedication, Preface, 1 The School of Waiting, 2 Waiting for a Bridegroom, 3 Waiting for a Child, 4 Waiting for Healing, 5 Waiting for a Home, 6 Waiting for a Prodigal, 7 Sustained While We Wait, 8 When the Waiting Is Over, Conclusion: What Are We Waiting For?, Acknowledgments, Notes, General Index, Scripture Index, CHAPTER 1 The School of Waiting To those who have seen The Child, however dimly, however incredulously, The Time Being is, in a sense, the most trying time of all. W. H. Auden, "For the Time Being" Betty's husband, a teacher in his early sixties, just lost his job. They aren't financially ready for retirement, but few schools want to hire a teacher who is over sixty. They are praying for God to provide a new job, but they don't know when or where that might be. Grace and her husband are both eager for a baby. It is taking longer than she would like. She has a history of thyroid problems, and it's possible that this will affect her ability to conceive. She doesn't know whether her longing for a baby will stretch on for years or whether her next pregnancy test will be positive. Catherine has cerebral palsy. She's been relatively independent for most of her life, but now she is wheelchair bound and has recurring problems with a wound on her foot that will not heal. She spends her time going to different doctors, none of whom have been able to cure her painful, debilitating wound. These women are all friends of mine. Their life situations are very different, but they are each waiting on God for something. None of them knows how long their waiting will last or why God is asking them to wait. They are students in the school of waiting. * * * When I was in school, I was a conscientious student. I tried hard to do my best and learn my lessons because students who learn please their teachers and advance to new assignments. When it comes to my life, there's a part of me that wants to please God in the same way I tried to please my teachers. When a trial comes my way, I assume that God has sent it and that he wants me to learn something from it before moving on to the next assignment. This kind of thinking helps me trudge forward in the hope that the trial will end shortly if I play the role of attentive student. But this kind of thinking does not serve me well when God takes me into the school of waiting. You see, for God, the goal of this school is not that I should learn my lesson so that I don't have to wait anymore. God wants me to learn how to wait so that I can wait well, even if my waiting continues for the rest of my life. While my plan is to keep a chipper attitude and show God that I'm a good student so he will bring my waiting to a close, God wants something even better for me. Rather than end my waiting, he wants to bless my waiting. In his book Waiting on God, Andrew Murray explains God's gentle instruction: At our first entrance into the school of waiting upon God, the heart is mainly set on the blessings which we wait for. God graciously uses our needs and desires for help to educate us for something higher than we were thinking of. We were seeking gifts; He, the Giver, longs to give Himself and to satisfy the soul with His goodness. It is just for this reason that He often withholds the gifts, and that the time of waiting is made so long. He is constantly seeking to win the heart of His child for Himself. He wishes that we would not only say, when He bestows the gift, "How good is God!" but that long before it comes, and even if it never comes, we should all the time be experiencing: it is good that a man should quietly wait. "The LORD is good unto them that wait for him." What a blessed life the life of waiting then bec
