How can I keep from feeling like my life is stalled out while waiting for my divorce to be finalized? I feel like I can’t move on or function because I’m afraid of my husband’s retaliation until we’re legally divorced. >> I really relate to this question, too, because I know what it feels like to feel like life is just completely stalled out when you’re in that in between time.
You’re separated, not feeling married at all, and yet the divorce hasn’t finalized. So, it’s just a really weird state. I want to toss it to you guys and um see what you have to say to this question. >> Yeah, I mean I’ll go first. Um I think that uh there’s this really great quote from Charles Spurgeon and I’m going to uh paraphrase it, but essentially Spurgeon talks about when you’re in a season of waiting and your season of delay and it feels like you’re stuck um and you’re waiting for rescue, you’re looking for hope. And he has this like
brilliant line where he says um that the one who brings rescue, God himself, has never been known to be late. >> And so it’s this kind of like reframing of that moment of being in pause of saying, “Wait a minute. I’m waiting for rescue. I’m in this place of um of longing. Uh and God’s timing is also perfect.
” >> And so as we’re in this place of patience, what do we do? Uh and Lisa, one of the things that I think that is so important language is is vital in the language of the scriptures. There’s a preposition, the preposition through, which is the most important preposition in my view of the scriptures. But we don’t live in a society that wants to go through anything, do we? You know, like even on the way here, I saw traffic, you know, to get get here.
My map said, “Do you want to save four minutes?” I said, “Yes, absolutely. I want I don’t even have to think.” I’m annoyed that my maps even suggest that anymore. Just save me the time. And um and so but sometimes we have to go through things. Sometimes there is no shortcut. There is no route to bypass the traffic.
