Waiting

How do you wait? Are you patient?  Anxious? Calm? Fidgety?  Filled with anticipation - or unease? Odds are, your answer is "all of the above." The way we wait is depends upon the context: we'll feel experience different emotions waiting for a loved one to walk down the jetway at the airport than we'll have waiting for the mechanic to call with the estimate of how much it will cost to repair the car.  But while context is important, so too is our disposition.  As Christians, we can look at waiting as an opportunity to engage in a spiritual discipline, one in which we are centered and focused on being attuned to God's will.  Advent, the season of waiting, is the perfect time to adopt this discipline.  So let us wait - with faith, reverence, and joy.