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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 seated in a warm elegant room beside the quote “You cannot heal what you refuse to name” for While You Wait Ministries Prayer and Perspective Monday devotional.

Prayer & Perspective

Monday May 18: Prayer & Perspective I want to start this week by saying something I wish someone had told me sooner. You cannot heal what you refuse to name. So many of us were taught to move on. Push through. Keep it together. Stay quiet about the hard parts. But that is not what […]

Healing Begins With Honesty

Prayer & Perspective