Do you like to wait? I don’t. I’ll drive out of the way to find a path to where I’m going so I don’t have to sit still for a construction zone. I don’t like to wait. When I’m in line at Wal-Mart or McDonald’s, I keep watching the other lines hoping to see one that is moving faster that I can slip into. I don’t like to wait. I use email rather than call people because I can ask what I want to ask and move on to the next task instead of sitting on the phone on hold or waiting for a call back to ask what I could easily ask by email. I don’t like to wait. Waiting raises my blood pressure and temper. Waiting frustrates me and at times I let my frustration turn to anger.

It’s silly and sad. The saddest part to me is I get this way with God sometimes. I get tired of waiting, frustrated and then angry. I’m trying to learn to change my ways, trying to remind myself that my time of waiting is a great time to pray. I’m wondering if God doesn’t do that to me – allow me to wait so I can spend some time with Him.

I’m working on looking at waiting in a new way and working on processing time waiting differently than I’ve done it in the past. I want to make it an opportunity instead of a burden, especially I use it to spend time with God. Maybe it’s the time He wants with me. Maybe, just maybe, I’ll use it for good and not bad.