260. While You and I Wait...(An Encounter with the Old Man Fishing)
"The nearness of God is good for me." — Psalm 73:28
Are you in a waiting season right now? Maybe you've laid something down at His feet ten times this week and picked it right back up again. Friend, you are not alone — and this episode is for you.
Kristin shares honestly from her own season of holy restlessness and the tender picture the Holy Spirit gave her that brought her heart back to peace — an old man by a lake, a fishing pole, a chair with your name on it, and an invitation to stop hustling and just come and sit awhile.
This episode includes a short teaching on what it looks like to encounter the Father in the waiting, followed by a guided imaginative prayer encounter to help you lay down the weight of the unknown and rest in His unhurried presence.
This Week's Invitation:
Find a quiet five minutes this week — maybe even outside near water if you can — and come back to this encounter. Let the Father meet you by the lake. Bring Him whatever you've been anxious about, whatever you've been waiting on, whatever you keep picking back up. Let Him be the one who is unhurried. Let His pace become yours.
Reflection Questions:
1. Is there something you keep picking back up after laying it down? What does that restlessness feel like in your body and spirit?
2. What picture or image does the Holy Spirit bring to mind when you think of resting with the Father?
3. Where in your life right now do you need to exchange your striving for His unhurried rhythms of grace?
Journal Prompts:
1. Father, what do you want to say to me in this waiting season? What are You doing that I cannot yet see?
2. Holy Spirit, how is God the opposite of what I'm experiencing right now in the negative?
3. What would it look like today to trust You with all my heart and lean not on my own understanding?
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