Waits...

Much of my life has been spent in waits that seemed to take too long. Until I look back and see what those waits produced. ~ Laurie Short

Surrender...

"Surrender is not the surrender of the external life, but of the will; when that is done, all is done. There are very few crises in life; the great crisis is the surrender of the will. God never crushes a man's will into surrender, He never beseeches him, He waits until the man yields up his will to Him. That battle never needs to be re-fought." ~ Oswald Chambers

Open to the Holy Spirit

"God waits for each of us to hear him say, “Behold, I do a new thing—through you!” The question is always: Can we open our lives so that the Holy Spirit may descend and new power break that we may be the kind of person around whom renewal begins?" ~ Elizabeth O'Connor (Call to Commitment)

Picture of Advent

A prison cell, in which one waits, hopes... and is completely dependent on the fact that the door of freedom has to be opened from the outside, is not a bad picture of Advent.

~ Dietrich Bonhoeffer