I’M NOT VERY GOOD AT WAITING. I like to know where I am going and have things planned out. I suppose it comes to some extent from having spent years always having to be planning the next year while working in the present. Waiting to see what would happen and then responding, was not the way of things. I like to be in control.
But life isn’t like that. This was brought home to me when, having broken my thigh, I found that instead of being in control I was very much dependent on other people – even for the simplest of things – and that was difficult. Where was that patience I’m always being told I must have lots of, because I enjoy doing fiddly, time-consuming activities? How many times do you have to explain how you want something done before you get the idea over? How easy it is to be impatient. How hard it is to wait – to be patient.
Psalm 37:7 “Be still before the Lord and wait patiently for him” or in the more familiar words of the authorized version “Rest in the Lord, wait patiently for him” which I had heard and indeed sung on many occasions in the past, came to mind and slowly it