Wait for it...

There is beauty even in the most unexpected places.

I took this picture this morning as I started my hike. Amazing huh? 

I thought it related to my life pretty well...

There really is beauty in everything. All we have to do is look for it.. and sometimes wait for it.

Sometimes things just don't turn out the way you thought they would. But when that happens, the best thing we can do is to find the beauty that comes from it.

A certain song came on as I was hiking. It's called "Wait For It" by Ben Truman. I was familiar with it because it was on the EFY 2010 album, but I hadn't heard it for quite some time.
It goes like this:

"They say, and you've heard, 

that life's gonna pass you by

 and things won't change, you've heard that lie.

But there's a difference in wish and wait.

You wish for a thing that you hope might just happen, 

you wait for a thing that will come, doesn't matter

You know that the promise that he made isn't that far away from you

so wait for it, wait for it...

Now is your day

Live every moment no time to waste

Look to the sky

and know that heaven will be by your side

Real piece of mind

is found when you're leavin nothin behind

so do all you can do

and then wait for it

You will find all the time was worth the wait.

In a moment's breath, a sudden beat in your chest

you will feel it

at morning's light, in the middle of the night

you will feel it

in a word, in a prayer, in a dream you can see it

so wake up and make it the life that you're living

You know that the promise that he made isn't that far away from you

so wait for it, wait for it...

Now is your day

Live every moment no time to waste

Look to the sky

and know that heaven will be by your side

Real piece of mind

is found when you're leavin nothin behind

so do all you can do

and then wait for it

You will find all the time was worth the wait.

What you feel like,

 it's gonna get away

Take your fear and turn it into faith

Then you'll see

All along they were wrong

Now is your day

Live every moment no time to waste

Look to the sky

and know that heaven will be by your side

Real piece of mind

is found when you're leavin nothin behind

so do all you can do

and then wait for it

You will find all the time was worth the wait."

Replace fear with faith, live in the MOMENT, and pray often.

"Faith is for the future. Faith builds on the past but never longs to stay there. faith trusts that God has great thing in store for each of us and that Christ truly is the "high priest of good things to come."
-Jeffrey R. Holland ("Remember Lot's Wife")

Love,

Kate