maturity.

the ability to wait for things.

the fortitude to delay pleasure for a time.

the courage to hope that good fruit grows and builds out of suffering.

the active remembering of mountaintops while low in the valleys.

the rejoicing in dry and painful deserts, knowing deep down in the GUTS that God is moving.

trusting that He is seeing to it; His plan and all its details.

here.
now.

choosing, believing, declaring, and clinging to the hope that God is always working.

even when we can't see.

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