This is the LORD; we have waited for Him;
We will be glad and rejoice in His salvation."
Isaiah 25:9 NKJV
Then, as I continued my browsing, wandering through the aisles, I kept running into this couple, and I began to see something else about them that captured my attention. It was the way the man stood beside his wife and waited for her. She was obviously the shopper and he was along for the ride so to speak, and never did I see him rush her or hurry her along in any way. He simply waited.
After I made my purchases and was leaving the store, I saw them again, only this time he was holding the books his wife was about to purchase. He was doing what he could while he waited, and as I walked to my car, I realized I had just witnessed a picture of how to wait well. After all, life is full of waiting—it seems everyone is waiting for something. God even asks us to wait for Him and calls us blessed if we do so. (Isaiah 30:18)
As I drove home—with that picture in my head—my mind wandered to the time before the birth of Jesus when people were waiting for Him to arrive, people like the widow Anna and the man named Simeon—those who stayed at the task God had given them in the temple while waiting for the arrival of Jesus.
That day, I never did find the special book I was looking for, but I came away with something far better, an indelible picture of someone who knew how to wait!
Merry Christmas with love and blessings,
Judy Grubaugh