Worth The Wait

I was about to post this poem of two stanzas when I received a text from my daughter!

Grandsonny FINALLY had 7 checkmarks;

one for each day he did not rebel tantrum-ishly when the answer to a want was 'no'.

 7 checkmarks earned him the reward of a bag of Lego 

Grandma gave him at the end of March, but his reaction to

'no, you may not open it tonight because it's bedtime' was not nice (to put it mildly)

so, we decided this might be a good motivation to weigh consequences when reacting!

How sweeter the Lego after the waiting, inspiring one more stanza to the poem😊

PAD Challenge day 17: For today's prompt, write a waiting poem.

Wait; a word with which we struggle

Wait; the gate to faith-hope-grace

Wait; for better days or trouble

Wait to take This Present Place

Wait without doubting or fretting

Wait with love’s humility

Wait without blindly forgetting

Who waits on us faithfully

Wait tests restless human mettle

But the beauty of the bloom

Must unfold, petal by petal

From dark, bud-shaped waiting room

So then wait with patient biding

Do not rush the soldered gate

For The Masterpiece still hiding

In a little word called Wait

Sweeter then will be the After

And the holding oh, so dear

When our tears are turned to laughter

In the wake of waiting's Here

We do not wait without reason

Test of time precedes the goal

Waiting is the growing season

For the faith that makes us whole

 

© Janet Martin

Oh, The Longer The Waiting...Josh Turner