I think people who love God make good writers. For all the obvious reasons, of course. But I wasn’t thinking about being messengers for real world peace or ambassadors of reconciliation. I was just thinking of this: We are very good at waiting.

We’ve been waiting two-thousand years for Jesus to come back and get us, after all.
We wait for answered prayers, and for promises to be fulfilled.
We wait for the fruits of the Spirit to show up in our lives and for the power of the Spirit to perfect us.
We wait every day in a multitude of ways.

One theory of creation says God’s days were actually a million years long. That would explain a lot about creation. Although I don’t subscribe to that particular theory, I think it may have been adopted by some folks in the writing world. “I’ll get back to you in a couple of weeks on this query” often translates into two months. Or three. Or four. And we are still waiting.

Jesus had some advice for the friends He left behind. “Occupy until I come,” He said. To occupy means to have an occupation (other than clicking on the Inbox three times per hour). He expects us to be busy doing whatever He has called us to do. For a writer, that means getting back in the chair, putting fingers on keys, and starting the next article, blog, or book. And, of course, promoting world peace at the same time.