So much of life is spent Waiting.
Waiting until graduation from high school, college, or trade school.
Waiting to get your driver’s license, your first real job, married, or have kids.
Waiting to have saved enough money to buy your dream car, home, start a business, take time off from work to go on a mission trip, to retire.
Waiting for the call back from a prospect, customer, email, or phone message.
Waiting to be inspired to write a book, the topic for a blog, deciding who to prospect to, what to do on a rainy day you planned for a full day of being outside.
In the midst of the waiting, we are living. At least we should be.
What is the difference between waiting and living?
Can you actually wait and live at the same time?
Does part of living well involve times of waiting?
There is a rule in spelling: “I” before “E” except after “C”, until there is an exception to the rule.
So when is education linear? Preschool, elementary, middle school, high school, college or trade school, then advanced education.
The exception to linear education could be with home schooling, or in homes where the focus is on life skills, or when a child has special needs: physically, mentally, emotionally.
How do we determine when it is beneficial to break a linear rule of society?
So many questions…. Did I write about Questions in a previous blog? Oh, there’s another question. So, I digress.
When we are busy living, it is easier to set the waiting aside. How often do you pull out your phone to check text messages and emails while you are waiting for an appointment?
How many times do I allow an interruption to put what I was focusing on in a “Wait until I handle this interruption” pile?
We need to be careful we are not being busy when we need to be sitting still (be present), listening to someone tell a story, picking up the details to affirm they are a precious child of God and indeed God has a plan and purpose for them.
We need to be careful to wait, pause to connect with God, family, friends, and those God sends across our paths. Did I write a blog about “Divine Appointments?”
We need to appreciate the wait for God to direct our next significant decision in life. And at the same time busy preparing what we can, what we know to do, to prepare for the next significant chapter of our life.
We need to live life fully in the present, in appreciation for all God is doing for which we have little (perhaps NO) understanding as to why the WAIT is taking so long.
Let us not forget God’s ways are far above our ways.
Let today be a day of encouragement to:
- Be busy learning, developing new skills, interests, relationships.
- Protect time to plan, even the details.
- Be flexible for God to redirect your plans.
- Enjoy today and the work God has for you to do.
- Never grow tired of doing good and encourage others to love and good works.
- Look for God in each moment of life.
- Include God in every decision you make.
