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 holding a coffee mug in a softly lit blush-toned devotional setting for While You Wait Wednesday.

Cover and Care, While You Wait Wednesday

A midweek reminder for the woman who has been carrying too much, for too long, by herself.There is a quiet kind of tired that does not show up on your face. You smile through it. You answer the texts. You keep the calendar. And nobody around you knows that on the inside, you have been […]

You Don’t Have to Hold It Together to Be Covered

Cover and Care, While You Wait Wednesday

with Rev. Dr. Lael C. Melville

While You Wait Ministries