The TASTE of Waiting: Just Like Bitter Herbs @ Work
I almost canceled the whole project... We’d spent nearly two weeks inviting people to take part in a series of interviews. Emails, announcements, reminders, conversations after a meeting. Silence. Not a single “Yes.” I started doing what most of us do in that awkward in-between: questioning everything. Maybe the idea was bad. Maybe I heard wrong. Maybe God wasn’t really in this. I opened my laptop, ready to rethink the entire strategy, when I finally noticed something I’d somehow missed: a message from two days earlier. Someone had already volunteered. The “no response” I’d been stressing over wasn’t actually true. The provision had come. I just hadn’t seen it. Ever been there? Waiting, worrying, rewriting your whole life plan in your head, while God has already started answering behind the scenes? The Taste of Waiting Think of bitter herbs. Nobody eats them for the flavor. They’re sharp, strong, and uncomfortable on the tongue. But they help fight infection, support digestion, and bui...