It’s Worth the Wait

“But if we hope for what we do not yet have, we wait for it patiently.” – Romans 8:25 When my daughter Haven started school, she loved it, but then there were some challenges, and she began to get discouraged. At that time, since I would drive her in the morning, we started a tradition of encouraging each other with sayings, and we had a list of affirmations we would recite back and forth. For example, I would say, “We’re going to be,” and she’d say, “Positive!” Or I’d say, ”Because knowledge is,” and she’d say, “Power!”  We would go on and repeat things like, “Because leaders are… readers!” or “If you can dream it…you can do it.” And then we’d say, “Honor Jesus with your life!” and we’d get all excited. But the last one we always affirmed, and this is one she invented, was “If it’s great, it’s