Waiting

"I've started to realize that waiting is an art, that waiting achieves things. Waiting can be very, very powerful. Time is a valuable thing. If you can wait two years, you can sometimes achieve something that you could not achieve today, however hard you worked, however much money you threw up in the air, however many times you banged your head against the wall. . ."
--The Courage to Change by Dennis Wholey
We, who are caregivers, also spend a lot of time waiting.  Waiting in doctor's offices, waiting for the care receiver to get out of the chair, waiting for the care receiver to get the jacket on, waiting for the care receiver to accept life's new reality.  One of the things that caregiving is perhaps teaching me is to wait.  It has never been natural for me.  I read recently where a woman said her mind and her body were not often in the same place.  That can be true for us humans.  Rather than relaxing into the waiting, our minds can be racing ahead to tasks needing accomplishing, things needing done.  Perhaps there is something powerful in the waiting.  It is worth considering.