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The wait is not wasted
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The kind that feels like nothing is moving. The kind where you have prayed the same prayer so many times you can barely say it with fresh faith anymore. The kind where you look at your life and genuinely cannot tell if God is working or if you have somehow been overlooked. Real bread — the kind that rises into something beautiful — requires something called proofing. It is the season where the dough sits, seemingly doing nothing. You cannot rush it. You cannot skip it. And from the outside, nothing appears to be happening at all. The yeast is working. The structure is forming. The foundation that will hold the bread together when it finally goes into the fire is being built in the quiet. David was anointed king and then went back to tending sheep. Abraham waited 25 years for the promise of Isaac. None of them were forgotten. All of them were being formed. What is God trying to build in me that can only be built here? Because suddenly the waiting is not a delay. It is a classroom. And God is not an absent professor — He is present, intentional, and deeply invested in what you are becoming. Join The Thrive Collective |
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You're not in this alone. Let me help you walk through it.
Let me tell you about one of the most quietly painful experiences a human being can have. Expecting something from someone and not receiving it. Not because they were a stranger. But because they were someone you trusted. Someone you believed in. Someone you poured into, showed up for, gave the benefit of the doubt to — over and over again. And then they did not show up for you. Maybe it was a friend who disappeared when your season got hard. A leader who did not protect you the way they...