Daily Peek: So that the ocean doesn’t destroy the ship.
While we were eating lunch today, a high school friend of Cate’s came up to the table to show Cate her newborn daughter, which she actually ended up leaving with us for a few minutes while she went to talk to someone else. The entire time she was gone, Cate never took her eyes off that baby. When the baby finally went back to her mama, Cate looked me dead in the eyes and said “I really can’t wait until I have babies.” If there’s one thing that knits Cate and I together more than anything else in the world, it’s the desire to be loved and have someone to love.
As I watched her with that baby, I couldn’t help but think about the season of waiting we’re in right now. A friend said something in an email to me last night that has been running through my mind all day today:
“[We will wait]… so that the ocean doesn’t destroy the ship… [before]… the ship is totally built.”
Posted: May 18th, 2009 under Uncategorized.
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Comment from Christine
Time: May 18, 2009, 7:20 pm
When I was a mid-twenty-something I was exactly where you and Cate are now…watching my friends get married, bridesmaid dresses piling up in my closet with no white one of my own to hang beside them. I had the perfect guy all picked out but he was a just a friend and no matter how hard I prayed I never could get that relationship to get with my program and become what I wanted from it. Seemingly out of nowhere he met and married someone else, leaving me completely messed up and convinced that I would be single and childless for years to come. I concocted all sorts of reasons why the seemingly perfect option didn’t work out, but none of them were, as it so happened, the correct one. That reason being “because He has something even more perfect for me”. I had to grow and move beyond where I was then in order to recognize and come to appreciate what God ultimately had in store for me. My life now doesn’t look at all what I imagined it would look like when I was planning it all out and I’m so glad for that. The details and circumstances may be different than I thought I wanted, but the end result is the same. I am loved and adored by someone at one time I would have thought highly unlikely and we have 2 precious daughters.
To carry your metaphor a bit further…I know how painful it is sitting in “drydock” convinced you’ll never make it into the open sea. But trust your Captain…you don’t want to make that journey with the wrong first mate. It will be worth the wait…I know it will! I didn’t have half the wisdom and insight you have into this season of your life when I was in it. It’s only in looking back that I see God’s hand in it all. I wish I’d sought it more fervently then…probably would’ve saved me a lot of frustration. Not necessarily saved me pain, but at least I’d have had more peace about my situation than I did.
Comment from Cathy Brown
Time: May 18, 2009, 9:30 pm
You know the old saying, “it’s not the desitnation, it’s the journey”. That could not be more true. Enjoy this time. It should be exciting with great anticipation of what God has in store for your life. I too was left to sit/wait/learn patience/like where I was in life/enjoy alone time/time with friends/time to grow etc., in God’s Waiting Room. Once I was comfortable there, He sent the perfect man in my life. I wouldn’t trade my time waiting and expecting.
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Comment from Bethany
Time: May 18, 2009, 6:44 pm
It’s a lovely and true sentiment.
Other than the fact that I wouldn’t have my four children, I wish I had waited for marriage rather than run into the first opportunity that came along.
To borrow the metaphor, my ship got dashed to bits and I’m still trying to rebuild it. Much better to start out solid and stay that way.