Hate to Wait?
I have been alternately described as either very patient or insufferably impatient, depending on who you ask, at different times of my life. Waiting isn't something I enjoy, never have, probably never will. However, for some reason, it's been a recurring theme in my life. I may share some of my patents on patience another time, but today I want to share something I stumbled on that spoke to me so clearly and even more beautifully at a time when I was at a very low point in my life. It told me that I was missing the point of the wait, that instead of enduring it, I should be EXPERIENCING it, embracing it, finding within it all the important lessons and learning them, arming myself to better face this drama called life. It broadsided me, how much I had wasted my wait, and I repented in tears as I resolved not to lose another second of the unique opportunity given to me. Imagine if you walk into your dad's office, busy, stern-faced dad who hardly ever has time to toss a fri