{"id":101,"date":"2025-07-22T23:57:17","date_gmt":"2025-07-22T23:57:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cota.org\/cotaforteamethanskidney\/?p=101"},"modified":"2025-07-22T23:57:19","modified_gmt":"2025-07-22T23:57:19","slug":"those-who-wait","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cota.org\/cotaforteamethanskidney\/2025\/07\/22\/those-who-wait\/","title":{"rendered":"Those Who Wait"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Isaiah 40:30-31<br>\u201c Even youths shall faint and be weary, and young men shall fall exhausted; but they who wait for the Lord shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings like eagles; they shall run and not be weary; they shall walk and not faint.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>2 Corinthians 4:17-18<br>\u201c For this light momentary affliction is preparing for us an eternal weight of glory beyond all comparison, as we look not to the things that are seen but to the things that are unseen. For the things that are seen are transient, but the things that are unseen are eternal.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignright size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1920\" src=\"https:\/\/cota.org\/cotaforteamethanskidney\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6574\/2025\/07\/IMG_0503-copy-2-edited-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-103\" style=\"width:335px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cota.org\/cotaforteamethanskidney\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6574\/2025\/07\/IMG_0503-copy-2-edited-scaled.jpg 2560w, https:\/\/cota.org\/cotaforteamethanskidney\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6574\/2025\/07\/IMG_0503-copy-2-edited-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cota.org\/cotaforteamethanskidney\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6574\/2025\/07\/IMG_0503-copy-2-edited-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/cota.org\/cotaforteamethanskidney\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6574\/2025\/07\/IMG_0503-copy-2-edited-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/cota.org\/cotaforteamethanskidney\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6574\/2025\/07\/IMG_0503-copy-2-edited-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/cota.org\/cotaforteamethanskidney\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6574\/2025\/07\/IMG_0503-copy-2-edited-2048x1536.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>It\u2019s bloodwork week which means we are more aware that we are waiting for results for a week. Bloodwork used to bring anxiety but now I\u2019m both grateful that Ethan is not anxious about bloodwork but also wish we didn\u2019t even need to have it done.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Waiting is the hard part. We wait on a lot of things in life. Waiting for Friday, waiting in line to check out, waiting for paychecks, waiting for Christmas, waiting to fall asleep at night, waiting for news (good or bad)\u2026. Waiting feels like a time waster sometimes\u2026.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But God\u2026.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We don\u2019t have to wait passively. God refines us in the wait. We can wait actively knowing that God has already been there and knows the results. We know His timing is better than ours. The God who calls the stars by name already knows Ethan\u2019s numbers before we even do the bloodwork. This gives me peace in the waiting knowing nothing surprises him. And there\u2019s strength in that peace.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Prayers for bloodwork week\u2026that numbers are stable or improving. With a progressive kidney disease, improving numbers can only be GOD!!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We were at 26% function two months ago. (20% is time for surgery)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Thank you for your prayers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>-Jenni<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Isaiah 40:30-31\u201c Even youths shall faint and be weary, and young men shall fall exhausted; but they who wait for the Lord shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings like eagles; they shall run and not be weary; they shall walk and not faint.\u201d 2 Corinthians 4:17-18\u201c For this light momentary affliction [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2283,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-101","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.6 (Yoast SEO v26.6) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Those Who Wait - COTA for Team Ethan&#039;s Kidney<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"It&#039;s bloodwork week. 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