For Those Who Are Waiting

“Everything can change in a moment” ⁣
“It can happen overnight!” ⁣
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Seven years ago today, I was at the finish line of a very long waiting season. Nearing thirty, and single. My mom and I laugh now (not then... then, I cried 😭😂) looking back on how I’d lament to her that year before I met Daniel: “I’m never getting married. I’ll never meet the man of my prayers and dreams. Forget it. I’m done. I’ll just be alone, it’s fine. My hope is gone.” She stood in the gap for me, believing when I couldn’t. “Well, I’ll believe it for you. He’s coming. I know it. It can happen overnight. Everything can change in a moment.” And she was right. In early 2014, my future husband Daniel Morris and I talked on the phone for the very first time, after “meeting” on Instagram and emailing for a week. I found an old forgotten journal entry today: “First phone talk with this Daniel guy :) I like him.” The phone call led to meeting in person, and meeting in person led to falling in love. And falling in love led to... all my arms hold now.⁣
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It happened so quickly — overnight, really — just as she said. And so many of my dreams and prayers were answered, beautifully and finally. 🤍⁣
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Here I am today. Waiting on other dreams and faltering in hope, again. (I don’t fully know why the Lord has asked me to wait so many times in my life, but what a theme it is in Faith.) I’m just here to speak out and remind you — and ME again — who are in the waiting seasons again: it can happen overnight. Even if our weary, doubting hearts don’t see it today and our hopes have failed.
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“All I know is we said, ‘Hello’⁣
So dust off your highest hopes⁣
All I know is a simple name and everything has changed.” (as T Swift once sang 🥰✨)