What are You Waiting For?

This question has been bouncing around the recesses of my brain since last night. Things in my life are such that...I'm waiting. With purpose, but still, waiting. I find myself having to choose how to respond to this season of life. 
I've determined that I'm going to run with it. Use this waiting time to do some things that need doing before my second knee surgery gets here...and I can't do anything for a few weeks. I just figured, if I'm waiting...maybe you are too. We wait, as humans for all sorts of things. A job promotion, a baby's arrival, a proposal, a move, upgrades to houses, vehicles...So. Much. Waiting. I believe that waiting...is okay. Often, there's a good purpose behind it. We wait in line at amusement parks, because that ride is going to be worth standing there for an hour or more. 
Christians are told in Isaiah 40:31 to "Wait upon the Lord"....and that if we do, we'll find the rest we seek. (Penny paraphrase). So...if the Bible tells us to wait...maybe that's why so often we don't feel like waiting! Couple that with living in an instant gratification society...no wonder we don't want to wait...for anything. Maybe, just maybe...waiting builds character. Or, maybe it helps us remember not to lean on ourselves, or that we don't have to lean on ourselves. Maybe that's why waiting isn't easy when it's something you want deeply. A friend reminded me last evening that, "Anything worth having is worth waiting for." How often I've casually quoted this axiom, but not internalized it to fit to my life circumstance. Waiting can bring frustration, for sure! However, it can also bring maturity, patience, a calm spirit, and the knowledge at the end of the waiting that often times, our joy at the completion is far more...palpable than if we'd gotten that instant gratification we so crave. 
As you wait...seek. Discover and reconnect with the quietness. Go ahead...do it! What are you waiting for?!