Waiting

How many times have you had to wait--for someone, for something?  Learning to wait is an exercise in building character. How does it work?  When we have to wait, we learn patience; while we are exercising patience, we learn to utilize the time for which we wait, constructively and productively.  What happened with you the last time you exercised patience?  Did you learn from the experience that not everything will always go the way you want it to go?  Did you learn that people will not always do what you expect them to do, when you expect them to do it? Or did you learn that looking in a mirror is always a good place to start looking for ways to change how we wait with patience?  :In our patience, possess we our souls."  While this is a hard-won lesson to learn, we must learn it lest we miss great opportunities to do great things while we wait for the promises of God to manifest themselves.  "Wait on the Lord." He will bring to pass.