There's a woman in a kitchen, standing and waiting for a man who just ended five years of her life through a text message from upstairs.
She wanted one thing: to know why. He gave her nothing but a closed door and the sound of a shower running for three hours. No explanation. No plan she could make sense of.
Waiting on God's timing often feels like that kitchen. You are standing in the middle of a life you helped build, and something has walked out without telling you what comes next. The silence is not peaceful. It is loud and you keep running the tape backward, convinced that if you could just understand the reason, the waiting would stop hurting.
But God's timing isn't a puzzle you solve. It's a presence you learn to sit with when the reasons don't come.
Maybe you have refreshed the same prayer for months and gotten nothing back but your own breath. Maybe you have watched doors open for everyone around you while yours stays locked and you have started to wonder if you did something to deserve the quiet. Maybe you are tired of people telling you to trust when trust feels like standing in an empty room and pretending you are not alone.
The waiting is not proof that God forgot you. It's not a punishment for weak faith. It's the place where faith stops being a concept and becomes the only thing still holding you upright.
Proverbs 3:5-6 does not say figure it out and then involve God. It says trust with your whole heart, and refuse to lean on your own ability to make the path make sense. The leaning is what exhausts you, not the not-knowing. God isn't asking you to see the road ahead. He's asking you to stop using your own weight to try to hold the road steady.
What is one season of waiting that, looking back, you can now see was protecting you from something you could not have seen coming?
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