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2014 Worship Guide
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But here’s what we do know: We won’t get
everything we wait for. Not in this life.
The big question is not,
Have I gotten
everything I’m waiting for?
The big question is…
What do I do and what am I becoming
while I wait?
Will I wait with patience and
grace? Am I getting better? Am I growing?
Or is waiting getting the best of me?
After Billy Graham’s wife died, she chose
to have engraved on her gravestone a rather
odd epitaph. She got the idea one time as
she had been driving through a construction
site, and there were miles of detours and
cautionary signs. She finally came to the
last one, and the final sign read, “End of
construction. Thank you for your patience.”
And that is what is written over Ruth
Graham’s grave: “End of construction.
Thank you for your patience.”
In this life we wait. Everybody in this
life is under construction. Don’t lose
patience. Don’t give up, and some day,
the construction ends, and we will see the
Messiah and will be made complete.
Mark Weber, Mount Pulaski Christian
Church
