Waiting doesn't come naturally to humans. It's inconvenient, it's annoying,

but most of all it's painful. We're are all familiar with waiting and so

was the community behind Psalm 85. Like us, they're waiting to bounce back

from a less than ideal situation. In it all, they hear from the One who

promises peace or 'shalom'. God is the one who offers shalom. Its

completeness and wholeness to our fractured situations, relationships, and

souls. And in him is where we find our enoughness. So in the wait, we can

know and experience the living God who brings shalom.