Waiting....

Waiting is always a strange thing, is it not?  We spend a good deal of our time doing it, so it must be relevant to our lives.

I got to thinking about the things we wait for....our health to improve, to see a friend, for a plane, for someone to get out of the bathroom, for supper, to leave work, to retire, to embrace a loved one, for a baby to be born and sometimes even...to die.  So much more we wait for too!

What do we do with those moments, days, years of waiting.  Yep, we simply go on doing our living.  If we just sat in a big easy chair we'd be losing a lot of time just sitting instead of living.

I was thinking about our old friend and former pastor, Albert Josephson.  He's dying.  He knows his days are numbered.  He has lived a most meaningful, fulfilling, exuberant, joyous life of ministering to thousands of people everywhere.  And as he lives his last days, weeks or months, waiting for his final moments here on earth, he continues to be that same person he has always been.  He's waiting for his final reward, yes, but as he waits he lives out his life for others....still.  He and his wife, Anna, became great-grandparents again yesterday, so they were both waiting for that little Zeke to arrive, too.

Yes, waiting can be a time of learning, or thinking or making others happy or a myriad of things.  It doesn't have to have a "couch potato" mentality.

So, while we wait...let's just live....and live fully!