Holding On

8-12 "When the time's ripe, I answer you. When victory's due, I help you. I form you and use you to reconnect the people with me, to put the land in order, to resettle families on the ruined properties. I tell prisoners, 'Come on out. You're free!' and those huddled in fear, 'It's all right. It's safe now.' There'll be foodstands along all the roads, picnics on all the hills - Nobody hungry, nobody thirsty, shade from the sun, shelter from the wind, for the Compassionate One guides them, takes them to the best springs. I'll make all my mountains into roads, turn them into a superhighway. Look: These coming from far countries and those, out of the north, These streaming in from the west, and those from all the way down the Nile!"
13 Heavens, raise the roof! Earth, wake the dead! Mountains, send up cheers! God has comforted his people. He has tenderly nursed his beaten-up, beaten-down people.
Isaiah 49:8-13 (The Message)

I hold onto this everyday. My husband and I (and many others I know) have been in a dark and hidden time of waiting. Most of us do not even know what it is that we wait for, only that it is God coordinated. Some of us do not even know what to hold onto to make the wait livable, but there is the ever un-noticed hand of God holding us from behind and causing the next step to be taken before we even notice we've taken it.
So keep marching, keep loving, grace grace, and embrace the change waiting brings. The end is near and the power, whatever His intentions are, is almost ready to break down over us and move us into the next levels of His plans. God speed, God courage, and God grace.