Season 1 · Episode 02
The long middle
The waiting season is not a pause before your life starts, it is the place most of your character gets built.
44 min
- Waiting
- Formation
Show notes
Beginnings get celebrated. Arrivals get photographed. The middle gets endured, usually in private, usually for far longer than anyone tells you.
We spend this episode in that middle. The years where you are faithful and nothing visibly moves. Where the thing you asked for has not arrived and you have run out of ways to explain the delay to yourself.
There is no formula offered here, because there is not one. What we do offer is a way of staying present. How to keep your prayer honest when it has gone unanswered long enough to embarrass you. How to build a life you would actually want, inside a season you did not choose.
And we talk plainly about what happens to hope when it is held too long, and how to tend it rather than abandon it.
Though it linger, wait for it, it will certainly come.