Waiting, after all, is the price we pay for being limited human beings who do not have the power to make good things happen when we want them to happen. There are a lot of good things that we want to happen right now. We may want them to happen today almost as much as we want life itself. But sometimes there is not a blessed thing we can do to make them happen. There is something about having to wait that tries our souls.
Nobody Likes to Wait.
I've never met a person who likes to wait. Waiting is worst of all when you are waiting for the surgeon to come and tell you whether your husband's operation was a success and whether he is going to make it. Or waiting for your own prodigal son to shape up and come to his senses. When you get right down to it, waiting is just about the most unpleasant thing we ever do. We Ever Do.