Learning to wait + growing a faith.

Learning to wait is hard. In fact, I am told patience is a virtue.

I know what virtue is, but I started going down a rabbit hold in the dictionary to really define it and make it tangible. Basically, I found that it’s behavior based on what one considers, good, right, and moral.

But I live in an instant gratification world.

And I feel like today’s society shouts as loud as possible that faster is better and now is best. In fact, aren’t we told that patience and waiting are inferior?

I was pondering these things as I planned out a pea tipi for the kids.

{The irony here is not lost on me. Traditional tipis were made so that one may quickly pack up and chase after the herd of buffalo. They were made to be quickly disassembled for Nomadic tribes.}

It took a full 36 hours of soaking peas before they could even be planted. Then we had to place sticks, drop seeds into their places, and wait.

It’s been over a week.

We dug out our spot, prepped the soil, and we’re waiting.

And right now all you can see are poles waiting for their vine friends to climb them and make a small little play nook in our yard. The little pea shoots are just now {maybe} coming out of the ground. And they won’t be mature plants for 6 weeks.

In doing all of this for and with the kids it got me thinking about how if we’re not taught to wait and if we’re not shown the virtues of waiting, we may never sow the most meaningful seeds.

We must get started to work towards a goal. And we must share the Gospel for someone to hear it.

It can be rejected. the seed can fail to germinate. But it may also be a word that grows into something outside of our lifetime. I know I needed to remind myself that the here and now is all I have, but the bigger picture that’s far greater than I am requires me to be diligent in the time given to me to ensure that seeds… both literal and metaphoric… keep growing and keep getting watered.

So don’t fail to plant because you fear the wait.

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