Some of us are tempted to compare our progress to people who started on higher ground. We look at where they stand and forget how far we have walked just to reach the foothills. But God sees the whole journey — every mile covered in the dark, every obstacle cleared when no one was watching. He measures faithfulness, not finish lines. Come sit a while and let this truth settle in.
Frederick Buechner lived nearly a century, long enough to watch both beautiful and terrible things unfold in his own life and in the world around him. When he finally wrote these twelve words, they arrived not as naive optimism but as hard-won wisdom from a man who had buried his father to suicide at age ten and still found life worth embracing. His gentle command echoes the most repeated phrase in Scripture. Come sit a while and receive this tender counsel for the uncertain days ahead.