The Wait

Our sweet Ella has been counting the days until the beach, anxious for the sand and sea.  Many things make us anxious.  Sometimes it’s tempering what’s ahead with what’s behind.  “For the grace of God has appeared, bringing salvation for all people, training us to renounce ungodliness and worldly passions, and to live self-controlled, upright and godly lives in the present age, waiting for our Blessed Hope, the appearing of the glory of our great God and Savior Jesus Christ …” (Titus 2:11-13). Heaven is sweet, and sometimes it seems a little sweeter, but nothing comes close to the immeasurable sweetness we will know when one day Christ returns.  Until that gloriously sweet moment, we wait with and in peace, casting all anxieties on Him Who cares for us. He alone makes the wait sweet.