Anyone else in the 2WW?

I am oh so tired (pauses to yeawwwnn) but I think that's cuz my lil' angel girl has her first cold and momma and bebe haven't slept in 48 hours not to mention working full time and a 2 hour commute each day. So, I'm a guessin' it's lack of sleep symptom for me.

Excuse me while I nod off for a bit...zzzz....zzzzzz......zzzzzzzz........

Aww, you poor thing!

I came home early from work today to sleep cause I just wasn't feeling well. And now look at me! I'm up late... should get off and go to bed too!

Well I think I am here to, what a relief. Waiting for that " o " is tricky business! :-D Now just the wondering..

My 2WW has come to an end. AF arrived today....onto a new cycle.

I'm so sorry about that... ((hugs))

I'm on Day 26, so still in the 2WW, but not expecting anything this month, really.

Anyone else still here?

Still hangin with you Tripper, day 30 for me. Expecting Af early next week. No obvious symptoms for me. Just waiting and God takes care of me, check out my devotion from this morning. It always amazes me that it is just what I need to hear.

Title: Waiting

Author: Elisabeth Elliot

"I waited patiently for the Lord; he turned to me and heard my cry" (Psalm 40:1, NIV).

The tests of our willingness to wait patiently for the Lord come almost daily for most of us, I suppose. Probably I am among the Lord's most impatient servants, so the lesson has to be renewed again and again. A tough test came when my daughter's family (of ten) was searching for a house. Southern California is not a place where one would wish to conduct that search. It's a long story, but at last, all other possibilities having been exhausted, a house was found, an offer made. That night word came that two other offers, of unknown amounts, had also been made. Dark pictures filled my mind: the others would surely get the house, the Shepards would be reduced to renting and we'd been told that rentals start at about $2000 per month (imagine an owner willing to rent to a family with eight children!).

"Wait for the Lord; be strong and take heart and wait for the Lord" (Psalm 27:14, NIV).

I lay awake in the wee hours ("when all life's molehills become mountains" as Amy Carmichael said), repeating Scripture about God's faithfulness, trusting, casting all cares, waiting. I had to keep offering up my worries and my impatience. At four I was up reading the story of Abraham and Isaac. Abraham called the place where he had offered up Isaac "The Lord Will Provide." I took that as the Lord's word to me that morning.

Before nine o'clock, my son-in-law Walt called to say "Offer accepted. Other offers, both higher, turned down." No explanation. It was the Lord's doing.

Waiting requires patience--a willingness calmly to accept what we have or have not, where we are or where we wish we were, whomever we live or work with.

To want what we don't have is impatience, for one thing, and it is to mistrust God. Is He not in complete control of all circumstances, events, and conditions? If some are beyond His control, He is not God.

A spirit of resistance cannot wait on God. I believe it is this spirit which is the reason for some of our greatest sufferings. Opposing the workings of the Lord in and through our "problems" only exacerbates them. It is here and now that we must win our victories or suffer defeats. Spiritual victories are won in the quiet acceptance of ordinary events, which are God's "bright servants," standing all around us.

Restlessness and impatience change nothing except our peace and joy. Peace does not dwell in outward things, but in the heart prepared to wait trustfully and quietly on Him who has all things safely in His hands. "Peace I leave with you; I do not give to you as the world gives" (John 14:27, NEB). What sort of peace has He to give us? A peace which was constant in the midst of ceaseless work (with few visible results), frequent interruptions, impatient demands, few physical comforts; a peace which was not destroyed by the arguments, the faithlessness, and hatred of the people. Jesus had perfect confidence in His Father, whose will He had come to accomplish. Nothing touched Him without His Father's permission. Nothing touches me without my Father's permission. Can I not then wait patiently? He will show the way.

If I am willing to be still in my Master's hand, can I not then be still in everything? He's got the whole world in His hands! Never mind whether things come from God Himself or from people-- everything comes by His ordination or permission. If I mean to be obedient and submissive to the Lord because He is my Lord, I must not forget that whatever He allows to happen becomes, for me, His will at that moment. Perhaps it is someone else's sinful action, but if God allows it to affect me, He wills it for my learning. The need to wait is, for me, a form of chastening. God has to calm me down, make me shut up and look to Him for the outcome.

His message to me every day
Is wait, be still, trust, and obey.

And this brings me to the matter of counseling. Upon our return from a trip to England I found a pile of mail, so many letters asking me what to do about things, for example: a wife's critical spirit, unemployment, a wife who has abandoned husband and children, a single mother doing a job she hates, an unfaithful husband, a woman (who tells me she is Spirit-filled) having an affair with her pastor, a farmer who'd like a wife, a mother-in-law who is nasty to her daughter-in-law, a stepson who is angry because "we don't spend enough money on his children," a wife who snaps at her husband each time he tries to snuggle up, and a husband who "drinks like a fish, curses like a sailor, and says he loves God."

I wish I could write the same letter to everybody: Wait patiently for the Lord. He will turn to you and hear your cry. It is amazing how clear things become when we are still before Him, not complaining, not insisting on quick answers, only seeking to hear His word in the stillness, and to see things in His light. Few are willing to receive that sort of reply. "Too simplistic" is the objection. One listener to my radio program, Gateway to Joy, wrote, "I got so upset at what you were saying I ripped the earphones out and aid, 'I'll do what I want to do!'" But there are those who can say, "This is the Lord; we have waited for him, we will be glad and rejoice in his salvation" (Isaiah 25:9, KJV). Here are two testimonies:

"I've lost my mother, my brother, my husband, and my baby. My song is More Love to Thee, O Christ."

"God picked up the scraps and pieces and made us whole--a whole woman, a whole man, a whole marriage."

Daily devotions courtesy of Devotions.org, a ministry of Back to the Bible.

THANK YOU for posting this devotion.

It was EXACTLY the words I needed to read to speak to my heart. (We have been patiently waiting on the Lord for 31 months in the sale of our home. Faithfully waiting on the Lords timing, hoping to downsize life so we can be more fruitful for him, less distracted in carrying a large commute, living closer to my mother after the murder of my brother, and now with a child, we seek a downsized lifestyle, so this really really spoke to me).

I am crying in great humbleness in these words.

I give thanks to Jesus for this dear sister who took time to post this on this website, so others could receive great strength and blessing in these words. Thank you Jesus, Amen.

I am so thankful God used Elisabeth Elliot to speak to us both. She is a treasure from God. I printed that devotion off yesterday because I knew I would need it again.

I am sorry about your brother that must be very hard. Praying with you as you wait..

God provides
Kathaleen

Thank you, Kathaleen, I too really needed to hear that message (again).

I'm not longer in the 2WW as AF showed up today in full force.

That devo has really got me thinking: about full submission, reliance on God and what it all really means and should look like in my life... Some days I question whether what I heard from God (about waiting 4 years) was just wishful thinking, but then the realization strikes again that the thought was not mine, it didn't originate in me, but was suddenly there - so it must have been God.

I know we all have lots to work on in our lives, and I'm really grateful God gives us His grace to accomplish it all!

I am out, finally, felt like a hundred years to me. I think I will take a month of temping it sort of stresses me out.

Hope everyone is having a good ttc month! :-D

Hugs Kathaleen, I'm sorry. God's timing is sometimes hard to understand.

Keep us posted please on how you are in the months coming.

hugs and prayers