# Waiting…

- Link: https://dismasfellowshipnetwork.com/reflections/waiting/
- Published: 2021-03-04T10:39:30-04:00
- Author: Paul Tuck

[⌊A Man Sitting Alone in a Waiting Room Looking Bored With a Clock on the Wall⌉⌊
A Man Sitting Alone in a Waiting Room Looking Bored With a Clock on the Wall⌉[

Waiting

 

**WAITING**
 (Excerpt from About Waiting vision4life.org)

Think about waiting. Read for yourself or share with others the ‘Let me tell you
stories’. What experiences of waiting do you have to reflect on, or listen to others
share their stories if you are in a group. There is something in this time about
waiting: about being prepared, for something new, waiting for cards and presents,
getting the house ready with decorations, trimming the tree, preparing the food,
getting everything ready. In nature too it’s a season of waiting. We look at creation
in the autumn with all the amazing colours in nature’s palette at that time and 
then see the leaves gradually falling from the trees. But things are not dying but
getting ready: waiting, beneath every falling leaf was a bud, ready, waiting, for
new birth and new growth in the spring. Waiting can be exciting, draining, a challenge,
a time of anticipation, a joy, a difficult thing to sustain. How would you describe
different times of waiting?
 Waiting : waiting for a bus or a train, waiting for
an appointment, waiting for an operation, waiting for an interview, waiting for 
birth, waiting for a special event, waiting for a special person, waiting for death.

**REFLECTION QUESTION:**  Waiting  may feel different at different times in our 
lives.
 How has it changed for you in your lifetime?  Is it easier or harder for
you to wait?  Why or why not?