Waiting & The Maxey Family

I learned from a friend this evening about a heart-wrenching situation the Maxey family is experiencing. They have 2 children who are on this Earth with them but five years ago yesterday they lost their oldest daughter to a very rare kind of cancer when she was just a little over a year old. Now their baby, who is close to Landon's age, was diagnosed with ATRT, a very rare brain cancer with a very high mortality rate, when she was about 2 months old. From reading through their story, the results that they just got back yesterday are not very hopeful. My heart just breaks for this family! As I was reading their story, I came upon this poem on their website which I wanted to share below because I think it is good for us all to hear these words but it just gives you a little glimpse at their strength and faith during this awful time in their life. This family takes undergoing trials and being tested by fire to a new level and they have such a strong faith in spite of everything!

I've said since the beginning of starting my blog, I've wanted it to be a tool that shows the hand of God at work by telling some of our stories and what God is teaching us and doing in our lives but I also want it to be a way to unite others together in prayer who don't even know each other so I would ask that you please pray for this family and that they would experience a miracle. You can keep up with their latest and read more of the specifics by going to their website and clicking here.


The Wait Poem
by Russell Kelfer

Desperately, helplessly, longingly, I cried;
Quietly, patiently, lovingly, God replied.
I pled and I wept for a clue to my fate…
and the Master so gently said,”Wait.”
“Wait? you say wait?” my indignant reply.
“Lord, I need answers, I need to know why!”
Is your hand shortened? Or have you not heard?
By faith I have asked, and I’m claiming your Word.
My future and all to which I relate
hangs in the balance and you tell me to Wait?
I’m needing a ‘yes’, a go-ahead sign.
Or even a ‘no,’ to which I’ll resign.
You promised, dear Lord, that if we believe,
We need but to ask, and we shall receive.
Lord, I’ve been asking, and this is my cry:
I’m weary of asking! I need a reply.
Then quietly, softly, I learned of my fate
as my Master replied again, “Wait.”
So I slumped in my chair, defeated and taut,
and grumbled to God, “So, I’m waiting…for what?”
He seemed then to kneel, and His eyes met with mine…
and He tenderly said, “I could give you a sign.
I could shake the heavens and darken the sun.
I could raise the dead and cause mountains to run.
I could give all you seek and pleased you would be.
You’d have what you want, but you wouldn’t know Me.
You’d not know the depth of My love for each saint.
You’d not know the power that I give to the faint.
You’d not learn to see through clouds of despair;
you’d not learn to trust just by knowing I’m there.
You’d not know the joy of resting in Me
when darkness and silence are all you can see.
You’d never experience the fullness of love
when the peace of My spirit descends like a dove.
You would know that I give, and I save, for a start,
But you’d not know the depth of the beat of My heart.
The glow of My comfort late into the night,
the faith that I give when you walk without sight.
The depth that’s beyond getting just what you ask
From an infinite God who makes what you have last.
You’d never know should your pain quickly flee,
what it means that My grace is sufficient for thee.
Yes, your dearest dreams overnight would come true,
but oh, the loss if I lost what I’m doing in you.
So, be silent, my child, and in time you will see
that the greatest of gifts is to truly know me.
And though oft My answers seem terribly late,
My most precious answer of all is still “WAIT”.