How do you Wait?
Flickr, Andrew "Bob" Brockhurst That’s one type of waiting: the excited anticipation. Waiting for something we expect to be good, like a theatre show or an imminent holiday; a delicious-sounding meal. At that moment, the waiting is everything. Our focus is on that and that alone. But it’s not the only type of waiting. T here’s the long, tedious wait. For a bus that never seems to come. For the doctor when all you can feel is the pain that prompted the appointment in the first place. The sort of wait that dominates, not because of the adrenaline of anticipation, but because there’s nothing else to do, or nothing else we can do, until the wait is over. This third type of waiting is in the background. Life goes on despite it. The waiting is always present, sometimes urgent, but it doesn’t block out everything else. It might be the wait for a distant hospital appointment or a child waiting for Christmas. It might be waiting for God to act. We kn...