Jenifer, 
Thanks for sharing this with us.  It is beautiful and oh so true.  

Virgie and Lady Hoshi 
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From: "Jenifer Gilley" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Thursday, March 13, 2008 5:38 AM
Subject: wait


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> 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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