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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 walking beside another woman in a garden, illustrating faithful friendship, loyalty, and the gift of people who stay through life's difficult seasons.

Prayer & Perspective, Uncategorized

We talk a lot about loyalty. But I think sometimes we confuse it with convenience.Loyalty that only shows up when things are easy is not really loyalty. That is just preference. Real loyalty is what Ruth showed Naomi. It was not a grand speech. It was a decision. A quiet, costly, faithful decision to stay […]

What Loyalty Actually Looks Like

Prayer & Perspective, Uncategorized