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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 smiles while writing in a journal beside an open Bible, encouraging readers to renew their minds through God's truth during the Prayer & Perspective devotional inspired by Romans 12:2.

Prayer & Perspective

Monday, August 10, 2026 Perspective Every new season offers us a choice. We can carry yesterday’s thinking into tomorrow, or we can allow God to reshape the way we see ourselves, others, and our circumstances. The Apostle Paul reminds us that transformation begins in the mind. Before our actions change, our thinking changes. Before our […]

A New Mind for a New Season

Prayer & Perspective

with Rev. Dr. Lael C. Melville

While You Wait Ministries