Waiting sounds like such a passive thing, doesn't it? The act of waiting. You let time pass until the wait is over and then you go on, right? Sometimes we do, but not always.
Not when it's the hardest kind of waiting. Not when it is the kind of waiting where you have zero control over the outcome and the outcome will seriously impact your life. You have a routine medical test. You get that call... you need a biopsy. While you're waiting for the test and then the results, you feel like you have a gremlin living in your head. He does laps around the creases in your brain repeatedly yelling "what if, what if, what if..." He's loud and rude and he won't shut up. You keep getting in the car with him like you're in a NASCAR race and you let him drive you to the scene of various worst case scenarios again and again. You're very active in that waiting room, but you know that it isn't the right kind of active waiting. How do you find it?
Our mission story this month begins with that little fear and worry gremlin driving a woman bonkers while waiting for biopsy results and it ends with perfect strangers feasting in a hospital room and experiencing peace together before the results come in.
Curious? We sure hope so!
Join Kat Silverglate, the founder of the Mobile Mission Project at The Ridiculous Hour Foundation for the April 2023 mission story and challenge called Active Waiting. If you would like to learn more about the project or you'd like to receive the Mission Pack described in this episode [while supplies last], go to www.theridiculoushour.com and click that orange Get Started button at the center of the giant bike picture.
This episode is dedicated to Alma Figueredo who found peace again and again while she waited.
With gratitude to Shannon Alderman for the sound edits to this episode.
