Memories are sometimes good, sometimes bad. Perhaps some of your memories are not exalted places where God showed up, places of great victory and triumphant conquering of enemies. Perhaps the thoughts in your past contain pain, brokenness, or disappointment. Do you run, then, from the memories? Or do you seek to find God there, in the past, and invite Him to show you how to find Him while you wait?

I understand that waiting can be difficult. Waiting can convert passion to passivity. Waiting can make us wonder where is God and what is taking so long? Waiting can lead us astray and into forgetfulness—forgetting our calling, our driving passion; forgetting who God is and how He has been faithful.

Yet, as a woman, whether married or not, you have the ability and the position to speak into situations, to call forth truth, and to remind others of what they seem to be forgetting. You can do this without manipulation, without demanding your own way, without shaming the other. Perhaps it doesn’t change the outcome of the situation, but sometimes people are waiting for a word of faith to remind them to hold true, to remember the one true God, to remember His promises, and to cling to what they know but are not experiencing.

Our silence as women grieves the Lord who plants His Word and His Spirit within us, coaches us in the night, and longs for us to give voice to His thoughts: to speak hope and love and truth and faith and courage into others’ lives. When we can be still and know and remember that He is God (Psalm 46:10), then we can come fresh from God’s heart and speak out of that knowing stillness.