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"Waiting is never wasted when God is in it."

Five days a week, Dr. Lael writes the word she needed on her own hardest days — short enough to read with your coffee, honest enough to sit with all day.

A Place to Land While You're Still Waiting

PRAYER AND PERSPECTIVE: THE BLOG

Rev. Dr. Lael C. Melville sharing coffee and conversation with another woman in a beautiful outdoor garden setting, illustrating how God often brings hope, encouragement, and support through people.

Prayer & Perspective

PERSPECTIVE Sometimes we think hope has to arrive dramatically. A breakthrough.A miracle.A sudden answer.Everything changing overnight. But honestly, hope often arrives much quieter than that. Sometimes hope looks like a friend calling at the right moment. A conversation that steadies you. A prayer that reminds you God has not forgotten you. A person who sits […]

Hope Often Arrives Through People

Prayer & Perspective

with Rev. Dr. Lael C. Melville

While You Wait Ministries