Evangelical
Sisterhood of Mary

You complain that God delays sending help. What could be the reason? As your loving Father, God is intentionally leading you into a school of waiting. There He can give you precious gifts: patience, humility, persevering faith. He wants to adorn you with these attributes of Jesus now, so that you may be gloriously arrayed at His throne one day. God wants to give you more than just the help which you are expecting and which will come in His good time. This is the reason for the long period of waiting and suffering. So thank Him for it.
 

Taken from Father of Comfort by M. Basilea Schlink