This past Saturday was my son’s twelfth birthday, and at bedtime he asked for an impromptu dance party in the living room.

So there we were, all four of us, dancing and singing at full volume. It was chaos. It was loud. It was perfect.

At first, we were all doing it out of obligation for the birthday boy. But by the end, it was just Anniston and me left in the living room. The kids had made their way upstairs to their rooms, and the energy shifted from wild and playful to slow and intimate.

A song came through the speakers that both of us used to listen to years before we ever met.

Back then, that song was a portal.
We would each listen alone and dream of finding true love. The kind of love that sees you, chooses you, stays with you. For a few minutes, the song transported us into a world where we were loved like that. Deeply. Fully.

And then the song would end.

No matter how many times we put it on repeat, it had to stop eventually. And when it did, we were both forced to face our separate realities:

That love we were seeking wasn’t here yet.
We were left to pine. To yearn. To wish upon a star.

Those years were hard for me.
I could feel she was coming. I held onto that hope. But the pain of her not being here yet was real. For years—through my late teens and all of my twenties—I lived with the ache of the gap between the love I could feel in my future and the loneliness I felt in my present.

And then life happened.

Slow dancing in my living room, fourteen years into our marriage, my heart full, my nose buried in her neck, breathing in the familiar fruity scent of her hair, I was struck with a realization that hit me right in the chest:

I have now had the life I once dreamed of—for longer than I spent longing for it.

Longer in the reality of it than in the ache of wanting it.

The relationship.
The family.
The work.
The abundance.

For so many years, it all felt impossibly far away.
And then one day, without fanfare, I realized: I’ve been living inside that prayer for quite some time.

Life is like this.

Right now, you might be dreaming of a business, a life, a relationship that feels light years away. You might feel stuck, overlooked, forgotten by the Universe. You might be wondering if your prayers are hitting a ceiling and falling back to the floor.

But one day, if you keep going, you’ll have it longer than you didn’t.

The real work is how you live in the in-between.
Do you spend that time in frustration, resentment, and comparison?
Or do you choose to live in a quiet, steady eagerness—trusting that what you’re seeking is already on its way?

I’m not perfect at this. Far from it.
But I am getting better at finding joy in the moment, at trusting the timing, at believing that my future is not ignoring me—it’s preparing me.

Whatever you’re seeking, it’s coming.

You can live in angst.
Or you can live in eagerness.

Either way, the time is going to pass.
You might as well spend it becoming the person who’s ready to receive what you asked for.

Miracle Monday Challenge:
If you knew for sure that what you want most is already on its way, how would you choose to show up differently this week—in your thoughts, your actions, and the way you speak about your life?

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