Can I get a box of patience at Walmart?
It seems that I am in the position of waiting to hear…waiting…waiting…waiting. Waiting for decisions that I personally have no control over, but affect me significantly. Most of the time I just focus on what is before me because that is the only thing I have control over, that is my response to the event that I am part of for the moment.
But in quiet moments that waiting…waiting…waiting invades my consciousness. Would I rather not know and be surprised? I don’t think so. Significant would become catastrophic.
So I must be satisfied with waiting…waiting…waiting. I try to keep busy, but sometime inertia overtakes and I seem to go from thing to thing overwhelmed by the immensity of it all, the inability to effect outcomes…that’s when I wish I had the “clean gene.” Everything in my house would be clean and picked up using the “clean gene.”
If you pray for patience does that mean you have to wait longer? Hmm.
How do you wait? What does your practice of patience look like?