more on waiting (that didn't take long)

No, waiting is not impassive. It's actually more along the lines of, actively trusting.
Psalm 37,34. Wait for the Lord and keep his way. And He will exalt you and you will inherit the land.

Waiting is hard work. You are consitently giving it up, your conception of controling the goal, up to Him. Because it will happen, without any help from you.

Perhaps I am actually talking about faith, and willingly giving up your perception of control. And then waiting for God.

It's come to me recently that we are kids. Or rather, when I was a child, I went to bed each night and never had a thought about what would happen tomorrow. I never worried about the future. I had total trust in my parents that they knew what they were doing. Now, we are God's children. Of course, how should we be acting?
With total trust that our Father has the answer to tomorrow's quesiton all settled.
We don't need to worry!

Sort of two different messages, but I think it's in a good spot.

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.