Waiting for tomorrow

I think that the biggest thing that we learn that isn't true is that waiting is a passive thing. I learned that this thinking was wrong from my advent book actually. When Mary was pregnant she had to wait, wait for the timing to be right, wait for God's word to be full filled, wait, wait, wait. But she was anything but passive about waiting. She was very active in it. Every word that was spoken to her about the baby she was carrying she stored up in her heart. She was joyful about it, living in the moment. In America we are taught that we shouldn't have to wait. We live in a nation of fast food and immediate gratification. In order to live a full life we need to un-train ourselves from that mentality and learn to live in the moment, for the moment. In order to hear God better we have to be in that moment with Him, not looking forwards, planning out the next moment. If we spend all of our time living in the future we'll miss the things that are right in front of us. We'll miss out on the full life that God has promised us.