WAITING!
Waiting is a fact of life. We wait... in emergency rooms, in birthing suites for a precious bundle to make a grand entrance, in doctors offices, lines in stores or boarding a plane, a job to open, a raise or promotion to be offered, and ... YES, traffic, too. Webster defines wait this way - to remain inactive expecting something. Waiting is not always the easiest to do. At least for me it isn’t. It requires patience. It means I have to stop my busyness. However, on the positive side it requires me to be EXPECTANT! A surprise comes at the end of the wait . So, THEN, how do I handle the ‘patience in the expectant’? When I am in traffic jams obviously I can take a picture. It’s a great time to check emails and text messages. This kind of waiting is not so difficult because I know fairly soon there’s an end in sight. I’m still moving- slower than I would like, but there’s movement. What happens when it seems there i...