Do Not Let Waiting become your enemy

​If we let it, waiting can be one of life's greatest enemies.

When we start waiting on time to do its thing instead of using time to do our thing, waiting quickly turns to wasting.

Time is wasted.

We are wasted.

I've learned lately that I've lived a lot of my life waiting on the life I've planned to arrive. Like, one day, I'll get a notification on my phone that Amazon has delivered my life and it's now sitting outside my door.

Yes! The waiting is over. It's time to live.

When we live that way, it's easy to grow hopeless. Because when you're waiting on time to deliver your life, every minute that passes that time doesn't deliver on that expectation, it turns us into doubters.

It turns us into people who start wondering if the life we've planned is ever going to arrive.

Eventually, that wondering turns in to a hopelessness that turns into giving up and settling.

Do you want to know how to turn waiting into a gift - one that sees time as a friend and not an enemy? Today, right now, start telling yourself you are on a journey to the life you've planned. You're not hunkered down somewhere waiting on that life to journey to you.

Start telling yourself you don't wait on life, you live it. Time is your best friend, not your enemy.

On YOUR journey, there is no waiting.

Today, in this gap between the life I'm living and the life I've planned, I can pray that God will give me strength and open my eyes to direction.

Today, in this gap, I can write one page or run one mile or make one phone call. There is always something to do that will better prepare me for the life I've planned.

Today, in this gap, I can identify one thing beautiful about the life I'm living that maybe I've missed while I've been waiting on life to come through with the things I've planned. I can write it down. Share it on social media.

The boys and I had planned to go to Kings Dominion this past Saturday. The rain cancelled those plans. We didn't sit around waiting, we went bowling instead - and we loved it.

On Sunday, the rains persisted. So we drove to Walmart and picked out a new board game to play together - and we loved it.

I'm convinced the hope we built together in that waiting made yesterday's trip to Kings Dominion more delightful than it ever would have been on Saturday.

We built hope in that space between the lives we were living and the lives we had planned.

What do you find yourself waiting on this week. And what can you do to protect yourself from that waiting turning on you like an enemy. An enemy eager to turn waiting into wasting.

Wasting time. Wasting you.