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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 alongside members of the While You Wait Ministries community, inviting viewers to renew their minds through God's truth during While You Wait Wednesday.

Prayer & Perspective, While You Wait Wednesday

Wednesday, August 12, 2026 Perspective Today is While You Wait Wednesday. God’s invitation isn’t simply to think more positively. It is to think more biblically. Transformation happens as we surrender our thoughts to Him and allow His truth to reshape our lives from the inside out. Many of life’s battles begin in the mind. That […]

While You Wait Wednesday: Renewed, Reset Your Mind

Prayer & Perspective, While You Wait Wednesday

with Rev. Dr. Lael C. Melville

While You Wait Ministries