Having the virtues of patience, a self-imposed constraint on the fulfillment of your desires, to wait for them, to wait and to wait and to wait...
To not always desire an immediacy of someone's services to you, to wait patiently each morning for the sun to rise, and not to rush this sunrise; to wait patiently each evening for the sun to set, and not to rush this sunset.
And then, gloriously, as you successfully exercised your patience, you see this sunset/sunrise in all its purple, pink and blue gloriousness! An ability to contemplate on the fluffiness and freedom of each colorful cloud you see in the sky. To appreciate this awesomeness even more because you waited for it and in waiting you EARNED this experience to have this beauty in the sky to be pleasing just for you!
To cook and to wait for a piece of meat to become either rare/medium/or well done. The passionate cooking fires that spit and lick the meat in the red hotness of its rising flames that each get hotter and hotter! Taking carefully measured time to cook the meat to its best delectableness and roasted perfectly to meet the expectations of your tastes, to wait and then to eat and to curb your appetite so you hunger no more.
We are waiting, we continue to wait, we are waiting on a reply to our emails, we are waiting on a kind word, we are waiting to see the happy faces of our loved ones.
We are waiting and waiting, and waiting for our favorite foods to go "on sale" in the grocery stores as we wait in the long lines at these stores for the cashier. We wait at pharmacies and we wait in doctors' offices, tapping our feet to our inner music as we wait.
The most ultimate of all our waiting is our waiting for The Coming of The Messiah!
To wait, to be patient, to be satisfied after waiting, to have all our needs met sooner or later, (but the sooner the better!)
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