In the wait
In The Wait – Trials Bring Joy
I am so excited to share with you that the In The Wait devotional has officially launched and is for sale now!
I have been part of an amazing team of women – all talented, godly, fantastic writers – who have been able (through God’s grace) put into words what we have been learning through the seasons of waits life has to offer. If you are anything like me, you know that our lives seem to weave in and out of these seasons. Waiting for a spouse, kids, that right job opportunity. Waiting for your business to launch or your husband’s cancer to go into remission. It may be a an exciting wait! The wedding day is drawing near, your book is launching, you’re about ready to close on your new house! Perhaps it’s an mildy annoying season, like waiting for the end of a school semester or working to pay off a small, but tedious loan. More possibly yet, it’s a hard, stressful, painful one, wondering if your child’s health will ever improve, struggling through heart wrenching marital issues or dealing with infertility or loneliness.
The reality is, seasons of wait have the potential to take our minds hostage and leave us exhausted and burnt out, feeling like we are living life in one big transition moment.
Our goal in writing this study is to show that it is possible to take these seasons of waiting – exciting, easy, hard and painful ones – and grow closer to God in them. It is possible to live life FULLY while being in an unknown season. Each of the 5 contributing writers, myself included, have shared with you our own intimate stories, lessons we have learned and are learning, and Godly wisdom that we are taking away. We want to equip YOU to grow with us!
This is an interactive devotional, meaning you get to participate through guided journaling (or doodling!) and prompted reflections on your own wait. You’ll be in the Word regularly, but don’t be intimated, you don’t need to be a Biblical scholar to go through it. All you need is a Bible (or a free Bible app!) and a pen. Then join us for 6-weeks as we partner with God to grow in the wait.
Friends, this is all God. I re-read the words of each of these days and it’s so encouraging to my heart. We give Him ALL the glory for helping us pour our hearts into these pages. What has been sealed up in this 240+ page book is nothing short of Him.
To be clear, this isn’t a devotional written for women struggling with infertility, although my story certainly is woven through the pages I have written. Instead, its for women of all ages who want to build a strong relationship with the Lord. Who find themselves worried or anxious, feeling overwhelmed in their current season. It’s for YOU, someone who dreams of claiming victory and living a joy-filled life no matter what your circumstances are.
I ask and pray that you pause today and see if this is something that God wants you to be a part of. I would love NOTHING more than to be able to watch others grow in their relationship with the Lord during their own seasons of waiting.
I know I certainly have a lot more growth to do and am excited to re-dive into these pages with each of you! Know a friend that may want to journey through it with you? Or two? Accountability is never a bad thing! :) Plus, it even comes with a FREE Small Group Companion Guide, making it easy to do in a small group.
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In the Wait: A Six-Week Study on Waiting
Thank you all – for your support, for your prayers, for your part in my own journey that has lead me to get on my knees and write out His truths. He provides us SO much power. I can’t wait to see what He has in store for you! Much love!
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WAIT | English meaning - Cambridge Dictionary
He had waited without moving, standing stock-still on the bank, peering into the water, hoping for another glimpse, a ripple in the water's surface even.
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The social realm does not remain idle, waiting for the international community to allocate attention and resources.
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The demand for choice was linked to the critique against the counties for rigid administration, unacceptably long waiting times for certain hospital treatments.
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An important objective of switching to activity-based payments was to try to shorten waiting lists and improve incentives for facilities to treat more patients.
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The child was instructed not to press any button while waiting for the cue.
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There can however be consequences for system latency since this approach requires waiting until after the gesture inputs have been processed to start speech recognition.
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A comparison of transurethral surgery with watchful waiting for moderate symptoms of benign prostatic hyperplasia.
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During this waiting period the strict physical and emotional isolation of remaining in my small room became overwhelming.
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Study of agent-oriented methodologies shows that current methodologies offer little support for designing environments; a whole domain of work is waiting to be tackled.
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Very often and in many spheres it has been the case - in previous years as well - that individuals have simply waited for orders and instructions.
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Figure 1 illustrates the dramatic reduction in the times patients were waiting for radiotherapy treatment.
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The psychological trauma of waiting results in many patients electing for private referral.
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Many of the states are not waiting until the issue is resolved at the federal level and are developing their own approaches.
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Indicating that higher levels of equipment per 1000 new cases, fewer contours and a shorter time to simulate three fields may allow shorter waiting times.
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One man was unemployed while he waited for a hernia operation.
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A middle-aged woman (Demet) is going to move from her hometown to Istanbul. Her relatives and neighbors came to see her off. Demet can't find tickets for the bus, which is leaving very soon. Finally, the ticket is found under the voluminous seat of one of Demet's aunts. Relatives offer Demet, whose studio recently went bankrupt, to take another loan, at least secured by her jewelry. Demet says that she has made the final decision: to move to the metropolis.
The fact is that she wants to send Zeynep to a prestigious private college, the director of which is her old school friend (Zhale). She also won a scholarship for Zeynep.
The phone is ringing. Jale is talking to Demet. She asks her friend if her plans have changed. How does Zeynep feel about the move? Demet looks out the window and sees that a ladder is attached to him. Zeynep ran away from home. Demet says that she is forced to interrupt the conversation.
A young man in a college uniform enters Jalet's office. This is Kerem, the son of the owner of the educational institution. He informs Zhale that someone has scratched his car. I saw him from the back, he has dark hair, about 170 centimeters tall. Sorry: what am I doing here? The car wasn't parked on college grounds, was it? Cream: You have to help me find this guy. It's a pity: I am the director of this college, there are 350 more people studying here besides you. Cream: And I'm the son of the owner of this college.
Will you help me? Regret says he won't do it. The bell rings, Kerem heads for the exit of the office. Sorry tries to stop him, but the guy says that he is in a hurry to the lesson. He goes out into the corridor.
Demet is heading to the garden. There she discovers Zeynep. The girl sits on a wooden deck set on a tree. Next to her is a framed portrait of her father (a man in a naval uniform). Zeynep looks thoughtfully at the sea, the view of which opens from the garden. Demet says that it's time for them to go on the road: things are already packed. The bus to Istanbul is leaving soon. Zeynep says he won't go anywhere. All my friends, all my relatives will stay here. Demet: You will have friends there too. And also: Aunt Jale says that her college is the best in Istanbul. Think about your future. Zeynep says that she does not want to think about the future, she also has enough worries about the present. Demet continues persuasion. Zeynep takes a slingshot lying next to her and shoots from it in the direction of her mother.
Offended, Demet says that she will go to Istanbul alone.
Lesson in progress. A guy (Jan) enters the office and tells the teacher that two of her students (he gives names) are being called to the director's office. The teacher dismisses the students. The same story is repeated in another office. Again, the teacher does not object to the students interrupting the class.
Jan enters the gym. He tells the PE teacher (Jihan) that the director wants to see two students: this one and that one. The teacher is interested: the director said exactly that - this one and that one? What about last names? He refuses to let the students go.
Kerem's henchmen, who have been torn from work, line up in the yard. Kerem demands that the one who scratched his car confess to his deed. And then he will have nothing.
Cihan enters Jale's office and reports that a guy from Kerem's gang tried to take students away from his lesson. She says she didn't call anyone. She goes out into the courtyard and stops the trial arranged by Kerem.
Sorry again requires the guy to come into her office. Sorry tries to have an educational conversation with him. He smiles cheekily, shoving his hands into his trouser pockets. Jale calls Kerem's mother (Sevim). What about my son? He is OK? Yes, he's all right, but I'd like you to come to the college. Sevim says that today she will not be able to pay a visit to Zhalya. I'll call you back. Sevim interrupts the conversation. Kerem tells Jale that her efforts are in vain. She will not devote time to you, she almost does not devote it to me either. She will say that she will call back, but she will not do it herself. It’s better that you punish me yourself: if you want, remove me from classes, if you want, you will issue a warning. Kerem leaves Jalet's office.
Demet gets on the bus. Zeynep is watching her from a tree. Wow, he leaves his own daughter alone! The ghost of her father appears next to Zeynep. He advises his daughter not to leave her mother, but to follow her to Istanbul.
The girl puts a portrait of her father and a slingshot into her backpack, climbs down from the tree, cutting off the road, rushes after the bus, which is circling along the mountain serpentine. Zeynep manages to overtake the bus, she enters the salon and sits down next to her mother. Demet calls Zeynep her lamb, says she was sure that her daughter would catch up with her. And I packed your bag.
Zeynep asks: we will live with aunt Jale, but do our relatives know her address? No, I didn't give them. How can they find us? If they call me, I will tell them the address. Zeynep: what if someone else tries to find us? Who? Dad, for example. Demet: Your dad died a long time ago. Zeynep: You didn't tell me like that before, you claimed that he was lost at sea. Demet: That was 16 years ago. So what? He could have survived. Even if he survived, he is somewhere in the Caribbean, he has long had another wife and a bunch of children, he enjoys life with might and main. Zeynep: My dad couldn't do that! What if he was taken hostage? Demet ends the conversation, demanding that her daughter try to sleep.
Demet and Zeynep knock on the door of Jale's house. She lets guests in, friends hug, compliment each other. Jale shows Zeynep her room, fully prepared for the arrival of the girl. Zeynep draws attention to the laptop on the table: is it for me too? Yes. Sponsors gave me a new one, so you can use it. But it's also brand new! Zeynep takes a portrait out of his backpack. It's a pity: you can put your mother's portrait on a shelf. Zeynep: why do I need a portrait of my mother? She is always there as well. This is a portrait of the Pope.
The friends leave Zeynep in her room and go to the garden to drink coffee. Demet tells Zhalya about her plight: she went bankrupt in order to pay off her loan debts, she had to sell literally everything. It's good that the neighbors helped a little. But I was left without a penny. Just don't say anything to Zeynep, she shouldn't know about it. She thinks we moved here purely for college.
Zeynep comes out of the house into the garden: what am I not supposed to know? Demet: were you eavesdropping? No, I just came out here and heard.
Sorry changes the topic of conversation: tomorrow morning I have some business, so you will have to get to college on your own. Zeynep: I have already found my way on the Internet. It's a pity: this girl will not disappear in a big city. I'll come back later, you can find me at the college.
Zeynep goes to bed. Jale says that her friend Melda is ready to provide Demet with a job in her atelier. Demet says that Jale is just a kind angel, she won Zeynep's scholarship and found a job for her. But I'm used to taking care of myself. We need to find work and housing. It's a pity: why didn't you like this house? He is very big, and Suleiman and I have been divorced for five years. Let's live together. Demet thanks her friend and says that she is used to living in her own house and on her own money.
Kerem is sitting in his room at the table, drawing and at the same time communicating via video link with a friend (Barysh). He says that he does not understand Kerem's behavior today: it's just a scratch on the car, the master will do everything.
Kerem says that someone, not daring to speak out against him openly, tried to spoil him on the sly. If I expose him, he will no longer be able to harm me. The snake needs to step on its head while it is still small. Barısh is interested in what Kerem is drawing today and asks to see the drawing. He says that he never shows his unfinished work to anyone.
The maid enters the room and puts a tray of dinner on Kerem's table. He yells at the girl: what are you doing here? How dare you enter without knocking? The maid storms out of the room in a panic. Barish: why did you yell at her? Kerem: She saw my drawing. Barish: what's wrong with that? Kerem interrupts the conversation by slamming his laptop shut.
Jale tells Demet that Zeynep is already an adult. She needs to be told the truth about her father, about how she was born. Demet asks Jale not to talk about this with her daughter. Time has passed, but nothing has changed.
Zeynep goes to school the next morning. She is stuffy in the bus, which is in traffic jams.
She goes outside and runs to college.
Demet discovers a large number of packages of various drugs in Jale's dressing table drawer.
Kerem's henchmen find the guy who scratched his car (Sedat). Kerem interrogates the intruder, using torture (dipping his head in a bucket of water).
Jale comes to Sevim's office and tries to get her to listen to her. However, Zhalya's requests to pay more attention to her son do not impress Sevim: she has too much to do, she runs a family business. Jale tells Sevim that she is making a big mistake. One day you will understand this, I hope it will not be too late.
Zeynep comes to college and immediately gets into a conflict situation. Zeynep accidentally witnesses how Kerem tortures Sedat. Zeynep demands to stop the disgrace. Kerem advises her to get out the best. Zeynep douses Kerem and his henchmen with water from a fire hose. Sedat manages to escape. Zeynep also manages to get away from the chase. However, the vindictive Kerem orders to find the impudent girl and hand him over to him: she must pay for her impudence.
Zeynep enters Jale's office, she escorts her to the classroom for the first lesson.
Demet finds a job, and now she will work in Melda's studio.
Submarine "St. Petersburg" is in Kronstadt awaiting repairs
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The lead non-nuclear submarine of project 677 "St.
Petersburg" of the Northern Fleet is in Kronstadt. The submarine is waiting for repair.
The work will most likely be carried out at the manufacturing plant — Admiralty Shipyards.
There is no official confirmation of the information, the media talked to sources.
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- Oleg Timofeev
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