Almost everyone at a point in time in life is waiting for something though not everyone is conscious or even aware of it.
Some may be waiting for the day they will be offered admission letter into the university, the day the will wear that matriculation gown to confirm their admission, the day they will write their final paper and graduate from the university and then the day they will wear that desirable khaki and sing
“Youth Obey the Clarion, Let us Lift our Nation High…” while enduring the scorching sun at the parade ground. (*smile*)
For some others, waiting may be to land that job, to win the contract, or to raise enough capital to start that business. It could also mean to move from being single to being married. For some couples, they may be waiting for the day the test result will read positive and then begin to count down weeks until the Expected Day of Delivery. Some may be waiting for the day they will retire or even die. The list is endless…
If you have really expected someone to visit you, every knock at the door seem like the person has arrived. If you have anticipated an invitation for an interview or call for a bid, every time you receive a mail, or your phone rings or a text pops into your phone, you may think it is from a prospective employer or client.
But as inevitable as waiting season is, a number of people simply coast though the passage of time and not wait indeed.
Truth is, the admission must come except a student chose not to be serious. So long as you have been admitted to study a course, strike action or not, if you choose not to drop out of school, then graduation day is certain. That marriage will happen because male and female created He them and that baby will arrive because He said none shall be barren.
Just continue to send out those job applications! Don’t retire in making fresh bids and proposals because you are closer to landing that job or contract than when you first began.
The passage of time must elapse but the question for you and I is “what are you spending your waiting the time doing?”
You may choose to simply coast through the time in worrying, fretting and being anxious about that which you are waiting for or you could decide to occupy till that day comes.
How do you do that?
Invest that time! Make every moment of it count! Savour every mouthful of that season because you just may never again have such pocket of time!
Getting married and having children never leaves you the same. While you are still single, why not drink every mouthful of that luxury of time in our hand by building up some spiritual, physical, mental and emotional capacity. Trust me, if you don’t build the foundation now that you are still single, catching up when you have a spouse and children takes more effort.
While you are still waiting for the arrival of that baby, why not begin to build up strength in becoming a mother/father and invest the time building intimacy with your spouse.
Believe it, as soon as just one baby arrives, a simple night out with your wife will become a luxury that you can’t just get off the shelf. (*not joke at all*)
As you are seeking a job or promotion, why not invest that waiting in building up your CV by taking lots of courses and degrees? How disappointing it will be that after exacting so much energy in searching for a job and then it comes and you are not qualified!
Most of all, as you are waiting to exit from this world (*we often do not pay attention to this, but we all surely will*), why not invest your life laying up treasure where moth and rot cannot corrupt!
Speaking of taking the final exit, NEWS FLASH! It will happen somebody!
But while you still have breathe in you (*reading this post tells me you are still alive*), why not invest your life (I mean your time) towards where you will spend eternity?
Bottom line!
Occupy while waiting because so long as you are putting the right application, that thing that you are waiting for have a termination date but when that day comes, will you be fit and ready for it or will have wasted such irretrievable time?
#JustThinking…
