While pondering conversations I have been having and thinking about how sometimes we experience a "waiting place" in our lives and how hard that waiting period can be for each of us. I worked on this podcast to share some thoughts and scriptures. Can I find evidence in the scriptures of people waiting? ABSOLUTELY. We all can and will experience times when prayers aren't answered for our health, children, answers to gospel questions. As Elder Neal A Maxwell said, "“one’s life … cannot be both faith-filled and stress-free.” It simply will not work “to glide naively through life,” saying as we sip another glass of lemonade, “Lord, give me all thy choicest virtues, but be certain not to give me grief, nor sorrow, nor pain, nor opposition. Please do not let anyone dislike me or betray me, and above all, do not ever let me feel forsaken by Thee or those I love. In fact, Lord, be careful to keep me from all the experiences that made Thee divine. And then, when the rough sledding by everyone else is over, please let me come and dwell with Thee, where I can boast about how similar our strengths and our characters are as I float along on my cloud of comfortable Christianity.” BY and BY is the answer. Answers will come. When? I don't know but they will come as we exercise our faith and move forward by and by. 

https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/general-conference/2020/10/57holland?lang=eng

"COVID and cancer, doubt and dismay, financial trouble and family trials. When will these burdens be lifted? The answer is “by and by.” And whether that be a short period or a long one is not always ours to say, but by the grace of God, the blessings will come to those who hold fast to the gospel of Jesus Christ. That issue was settled in a very private garden and on a very public hill in Jerusalem long ago." Jeffrey R Holland, October 2020 Waiting on the Lord

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