Do You Know HOW TO WAIT? - Wasting Our Lives Away

Wasting Our Lives Away

Nineteenth-century American poet Ralph Emerson once complained: "How much of human life is lost in waiting!"   More recently, author Lance Morrow complained about the boredom and physical discomfort of waiting.  But then he spoke of  "The knowledge that one's most precious resource,  time, a fraction of one's life, is being stolen away, irrecoverable lost."  Sad, but true.  Time lost because of waiting is lost forever.

 Of course, if life were not so short, waiting would be less of a cause for concern.  But life is short.  Thousands of years ago, the Bible psalmist commented:  "In themselves the days of our years are seventy years; and if because of special mightiness they are eighty years, yet their insistence is on trouble and harmful things; for it must quickly pass by, and away we fly."  (Psalm 90:10) Wherever we live and whoever we are, our lives-the days, hours, minutes that lie before us when we are born-are limited.  Yet, we cannot avoid situations where we are forced  to waste some of that precious time waiting on events or people. 

Next time: Do You Know HOW TO WAIT? - Learning How to Wait

The Watchtower, 2000