"I am working on your behalf. Bring Me all your concerns, including your dreams. Talk with Me about everything, letting the Light of My Presence shine on your hopes and plans. Spend time allowing My Light to infuse your dreams with life, gradually transforming them into reality. This is a very practical way of collaborating with Me. I, the Creator of the universe, have designed to co-create with you. Do not try to hurry this process. If you want to work with Me, you have to accept My time frame. Hurry is not in My nature. Abraham and Sarah had to wait many years for the fulfillment of My promise, a son. How their long wait intensified their enjoyment of this child! Faith is the assurance of things hoped for, perceiving as real fact what is not revealed to the senses."I first read this devotional in 2012. Here is what I wrote then:
"Father, You do know my dreams, day after day I bring them to you....mostly my dream of being a forever mom, of having children. There are times it feels like it is never going to happen. It is hard that hurry is not in your nature. I want Your timing, Your perfect plan, but my finite mind sometimes has a hard time accepting it. No doubt our long wait will make us appreciate and enjoy our children in a whole different way."
Now, three years later, my two children are sleeping in the room next to mine. My two children. My dream of being a forever mom came true, not in my time or my way, but in His time and His way. And do you know want? His plans and His ways are so much better than mine. There were many times I didn't feel like my dreams were ever going to come true, but they did!
Whatever it is you are hoping for and waiting for this Christmas season, may I encourage you, even as I encourage myself, to run to the Creator, collaborate with Him. He is working on your behalf.
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