Jorie King has been waiting for Ben Zook much of her life--waiting for him to return to Lancaster County, the church, and her. When he is reported dead, she is devastated but finds unexpected comfort in his brother Caleb, a comfort that turns to love for both of them.
The authors discuss the circumstances that brought them together and their decision to abstain from sex until marriage.
Have you ever thought how much you must wait? Waiting is an inevitable part of life. It is helpful to really consider and reflect on waiting in our individual lives. What are we waiting for? What do we do now?
Chock-full of humor and poignant insights, these stories will make you laugh and cry. They’ll challenge you to enjoy—or at least endure—the now. As Eileen has learned, “To wait is human.
introduction: a reflection on waiting of savouring the future, of staying in the present and of finding meaning in the act of waiting. It was only when I was pregnant with my first child that I realized that I had completely ...
Today I have been waiting for her at a distance from her place. In case her landlady finds out that she is out dating, she would create a ruckus. Therefore, I cautiously wait for her, pretending to be watching the surroundings, ...
God can do it if you are willing to wait for the change. ... The praying isn't really the hard part, the “wait” is. It may seem like you have been waiting forever for this to come to pass, but 2 Peter 2:38 says But, beloved, ...
However, a wanderer on the waiting path can only go with their assigned travel assisting guide.” “Wait. A spirit on the, what?” I stopped in my tracks. “The waiting path. It is what we call the place for wanderers or spirits that have ...
Yet , that denial and that separation are themselves a kind of pain for those of us who wait outside the moat , cut off by it . Every Easter , as I look at the corpus on the cross above our altar , I am reminded of that separation ...
These souls “under the Altar” were still waiting, and their waiting wearied them. “How long?” they cried. They were not in the flesh, their bodies had been slain. They were absent from the body and present with the Lord, with Christ, ...
Hannah slipped away undetected and, as the sound of bombs heralded the arrival of enemy aircraft, she made her way into another shelter to wait out the air raid. When the all clear sounded she left hurriedly and eventually boarded ...