Dear Jenifer,

Oh, wow! That is beautiful. I'm keeping it!

Thanks a bunch, Loving One.

Lovingly,
Pat Ferguson


At 04:38 AM 3/13/2008, you wrote:
>***author unknown***
>Wait
>by Russell Kelfer
>Desperately, helplessly, longingly, I cried;
>Quietly, patiently, lovingly, God replied.
>I pled and I wept for a clue to my fate . . .
>And the Master so gently, simply said, "Wait."
>"Wait? you say wait?" my indignant reply.
>"Lord, I need answers, I need to know why!
>Is your hand shortened? Or have you not heard?
>By faith I have asked, and I'm claiming your Word.
>"My future and all to which I relate
>Hangs in the balance, and you tell me to wait?
>I'm needing a 'yes', a go-ahead sign,
>Or even a 'no' to which I can resign.
>"You promised, dear Lord, that if we believe,
>We need but to ask, and we shall receive.
>And Lord I've been asking, and this is my cry:
>I'm weary of asking! I need a reply."
>Then quietly, softly, I learned of my fate,
>As my Master replied again, "Wait."
>So I slumped in my chair, defeated and taut,
>And grumbled to God, "So, I'm waiting for what?"
>He seemed then to kneel, and His eyes met with mine . . .
>and He tenderly said, "I could give you a sign.
>I could shake the heavens and darken the sun.
>I could raise the dead and cause mountains to run.
>"I could give all you seek and pleased you would be.
>You'd have what you want, but you wouldn't know Me.
>You'd not know the depth of my love for each saint.
>You'd not know the power that I give to the faint.
>"You'd not learn to see through clouds of despair;
>You'd not learn to trust just by knowing I'm there.
>You'd not know the joy of resting in Me
>When darkness and silence are all you can see.
>"You'd never experience the fullness of love
>When the peace of My spirit descends like a dove.
>You would know that I give, and I save, for a start,
>But you'd not know the depth of the beat of My heart.
>"The glow of my comfort late into the night,
>The faith that I give when you walk without sight.
>The depth that's beyond getting just what you ask
> From an infinite God who makes what you have last.
>"You'd never know, should your pain quickly flee,
>What it means that My grace is sufficient for thee.
>Yes, your dearest dreams overnight would come true,
>But, oh, the loss, if you missed what I'm doing in you.
>"So, be silent, my child, and in time you will see
>That the greatest of gifts is to truly know me.
>And though oft My answers seem terribly late,
>My most precious answer of all is still . . . Wait."
>
>
>Jenifer Gilley
>Christ came that we may have life everlasting!
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