The Virus

I wait for the LORD; I wait and put my hope in his word.

Psalms 130:5 CSB

The fall progressed. I had begun weaving her future story in my mind as we waited for the spring track and field season. She was going to have the comeback of the year. The stuff you see in movies. We were ready and waiting to see this play out.

She was stronger than I had ever seen her. Though she was hesitant with a knee she was learning to trust, she grew physically and mentally. 

We went to her first collegiate track meet. We jumped for joy when she cleared her first bar. She did it. It had been almost a year since she competed, almost a year since she was hurt, and she did it. She didn’t beat her highest record, but she was back. And we could not have been happier. 

Then it was spring break. She came home expecting to be home a week. Her next meet was to be in a few short weeks. And you know what happened next. Cancelled. All of it. Cancelled. 

LORD! WHY? Again - this story is not how I would’ve written it. She was to have a break-out season and earn that scholarship after all. But no.

I realize that many have lost far more than we have with this pandemic. It is awful. But again we have to trust. I am not good at waiting. But, alas, we are waiting to see how all of this turns out. Waiting for another track season. Waiting for life to return to normal. 

So what am I to do with this waiting? I am working hard at trusting the Lord. Y’all I’m going to be honest. It is not easy. BUT, God has given me a season of growth in Him that I had not experienced in quite some time. 

Lord, thank you for the growth in the waiting. Continue granting me patience. 

Julie Smith