Waiting

I've been praying lately for close friends going through a bone marrow transplant. The wife recently quoted Charles Spurgeon on their Caringbridge site, and it is a word worth remembering:

Wait in quiet patience, not rebelling because things are difficult, but blessing your God for the privilege of affliction. Never grumble … but accept the circumstance as it is, and put it as it stands, simply and with your whole heart, without any selfish agenda, into the hand of your covenant God, saying,

Now, Lord, not my will, but Yours be done. I do not know what to do. I am at an end of myself, but I will wait until You part the floods … I will wait, even if You test me for a while, for my heart is fixed upon You alone, O God, and my spirit waits for You in the deep conviction that You will still be my joy and my salvation, my refuge and my strong tower (Spurgeon).