December 15, 2025 // Monday of the Third Week of Advent
Read the Word // Open your Bible to today’s First Reading: Numbers 24: 2-7, 15-17a
Reflect on the Word //
One of my favorite worship songs is “Wait” by Phil Wickham. The tender yet powerful chorus flows like a prayer and is evidence of the singer having discovered the sweetness of stillness in divine communion: “Cause the longer I wait, the more You can do. And the deeper I fall in love with You. So I wait. Wait for You.”
Ironically, or rather providentially, I was given a chance to live out these lyrics this past Lent. Prompted by my own silent prayer, I signed up for a twelve-week Catholic wellness program as my Lenten discipline. I had heard phenomenal things about this apostolate, and I was looking forward to all the ways God was going to love me into wholeness through this new approach.
So I waited. And waited. But no matter how many changes I made or commitments I put into practice, I couldn't see the Lord moving—or healing. And the answers I sought in my desperate pursuit for understanding and direction were only met with painful silence.
Unlike the prophet Balaam, “who hears what God says, and knows what the Most High knows” and “sees what the Almighty sees” (Numbers 24:4), my eyes and heart remained veiled to the divine plan. It was only after many months of patient waiting that clarity began to burst forth like “free-flowing waters” (Numbers 24:7).
Sister, we aren’t meant to have all the answers, let alone immediate ones. The season of Advent is a good reminder for us, that whether we are waiting on a breakthrough, healing, or restoration, hurry is incompatible with the loving pace of God. All things transpire in His perfect timing, including the ultimate victory and reign of the One Whose coming Balaam announced (see Numbers 24:17). The Lord does beautiful things in our lives when we choose to wait on Him and His works. But we don’t wait alone. Like “gardens beside a stream” (Numbers 24:6), He is with us through the waiting until His promises unfold.
Because the longer we wait, the more He can do. So however long it takes, Lord, we will wait for You.
Relate to the Lord // What does waiting with the Lord look like for you?
Cathy Webb est une vierge consacrée du diocèse de Wilmington et la créatrice du journal Sacred Heart to Heart . Aide-bibliothécaire à plein temps, elle aime les livres longs, les jupes longues et surtout les longs entretiens avec son divin Époux. Elle se réjouit de la rencontre priante avec l'Église universelle, mais occupe une place spéciale dans son cœur pour Dublin, en Irlande, où elle a donné au Christ son « oui ». En savoir plus sur elle ici .
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