Enjoy your waiting season

I’ve been writing a lot about waiting seasons at this time of my life, because I’ve been in one for over 5 years.

While I’m in a great marriage and have two beautiful kids, I have been waiting to get my career back on track, and the process has been hindered largely because of things I have no control over.

It’s been really hard. I have prayed, wept, endured well meaning but poorly informed advice about my life and situation.

Maybe you have too.

Perhaps you’re waiting to be married or waiting to have a child or for a dream job etc.

One thing common to us all in this life is that we will all experience one form of waiting season or another.

I have shared 5 things to do in a waiting season to make it impactful or purposeful.

And I have been living what I preach: started a Courtship&Marriage podcast, community for young wives/wives to be, and blogging on here.

I have also shared when waiting is hard to help you see that you are not alone, thousands of years ago, devoted believers like you and I have gone through difficult waits.

Today I want to focus on enjoying your wait.

But first, why should you be focused on enjoying a situation you’d rather change? 3 simple reasons:

1. Changing it may be out of your control.

2. No matter how bad it is, there is something you can be grateful for.

3. You will never get this time back.

Everyday is a day that we can not recover if we do not maximize it.

And for every day there is a blessing you can enjoy. Even if that blessing is just the breath in your nostrils.

Let me make this personal: I am a mom, I am a loved wife and I have hope of spending eternity with Christ in heaven. These are blessings I cannot afford to take for granted today, even though I am waiting on my career.

I will never get this time in my kids life ever again, so I refuse to let what I lack prevent me from enjoying what I have.

I have the time and opportunity to train them, enjoy every minute of their development, and creating lasting bonds and memories with them.

I will not trade that, for disastifaction over a career I know will eventually open up one way or another.

And even if it never does, I still will not get this time with my young kids ever again, so I choose to enjoy this phase!

Whatever you may be waiting on, there is something you have that you can choose to enjoy. Don’t allow what you are waiting to have, stop you from enjoying what you have now!

If you’re waiting on marriage, you have the freedom of being single, enjoy it. Get knowledge to build your finances; See the world; Grow in your career/business; Serve God unreservedly and unashamedly, simply because you can!

Refuse to wait for a spouse before you can live. You will be even more attractive to potential suitors that way, and even if none is on the horizon, you will have no regrets!

If you’re waiting on kids, enjoy your spouse. It may be hard but it’s a choice you can make and it’s a choice you absolutely control.

Take vacations, trips, redecorate, start a foundation together maybe for orphaned kids, truly enjoy life with each other.

You didn’t get married solely because you wanted kids, you got married because you love each other, so choose to fully live in love with your spouse.

If you’re waiting for a dream job, wake up with joy to go to the one you have because it is your current source of income. It is providing you food, clothing, an opportunity to contribute.

Yes, you desire or maybe even deserve better, but there are people who wish they could have just even anything to put food on their table. So be thankful and choose to be joyful.

And if perhaps you’re waiting on a major change in your spouse so you can have a more fulfilling marriage, be joyful that you are not the source of concern. There is hope for your marriage because you choose to keep investing in it.

No matter what you’re waiting on, realize that the desire for a better tomorrow shouldn’t cost you the joy of having today.

Cheering you on,

Mrs Omoghene.

P.S: do you have any ideas or experiences on being joyful while waiting, please share with me. You’d bless me and maybe someone else reading this too.💛