A Little Smitten

From time to time I become smitten with an author. Sometimes the smitten-ness stays, sometimes it fades. Andrew Murray is an author that I am definitely smitten with and that smitten-ness has stayed over time.
I have a huge book of compiled Andrew Murray books, mostly focused on prayer (making me SOOO happy to read good writing on prayer!). At the beginning of January I started reading his book called Waiting on God. Today's entry was focused on the fact that we are to encourage one another through prayer to wait patiently on the Lord.
This reminded my heart of the truth that we are all waiting. We are not in heaven yet, so things are not perfect. We all have some sort of ache with the imperfections of this world. So we, as Christians brothers and sisters, have the opportunity to encourage each other in this through prayer. How much we share of our heartaches with one another is another matter, but we are not alone in our waiting state.
I will close with Murray's recorded prayer:
Blessed Father, we humbly beseech You, let none who wait on You be ashamed; no not one. Some are weary, and the time of waiting appears long. And some are feeble and scarcely know how to wait. And some are so entangled in the effort of their prayers and their work, they think that they can find no time to wait continually. Father, teach us all how to wait! Teach us to think of each other and pray for each other. Teach us to think of You, the God of all waiting ones. Father, let none who wait on You be ashamed! For Jesus' sake. Amen.