Prayer & Perspective

A Place to Land While You're Still Waiting

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.

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

01 Read A five-minute word, Monday through Friday
02 Pray Bring what it stirs up straight to God
03 Reflect Write it down in the free companion journal
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Rev. Dr. Lael C. Melville walking through a sunlit harvest field, reflecting on God's provision and faithfulness during seasons of waiting.

Prayer & Perspective

After Naomi and Ruth arrived in Bethlehem with nothing, Ruth went out to work. She went to glean in the fields, which basically meant she was picking up the leftover grain that harvesters dropped behind them. It was humble work. It was unglamorous. It was what survival looked like. And in the middle of that […]

God Provides in the Middle of the Waiting

Prayer & Perspective

with Rev. Dr. Lael C. Melville

While You Wait Ministries