Wait
Walking home from the train station - back when people commuted to work - I would come to an intersection. I would push the button on the lamp post and it would reply:
“Wait to cross Jones Street at Adams Avenue.”
Not wanting to wait - I would push the button repeatedly in rapid succession. Each time it would start to repeat the message, but I would push it again, making its response roughly this:
Wait to- Wait- Wait- Wait - Wait - Wai- Wait - Wait to - Wait
On one of these walks a friend drove by, rolled down her window, and said: “You only need to push it once.”
I couldn’t help but burst out laughing at her true and obvious comment.
As I conintued pushing the button, eventually the speaker is programmed to increase the volume and repeat the same message:
“Wait to cross Jones Street at Adams Avenue!”
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My brother in law, Uncle Blackbeard Bob, warned me against flashing my car’s bright lights at red lights since he had a friend who got pulled over and ticketed for immitating a police car - for doing the same thing I always do.
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When my wife and I were looking for a house a few years ago we found one across the street from the library. We wanted to submit an offer but it was already undercontract - the seller had tentatively accepted another offer - before we could submit ours. I was frustrated but my wife wasn’t - the basement and the house was very small for our family. The basement was actually something like a root cellar - full of dirt with a small area for the back door to be opened.
My plan was: all of our kids would share a room there - after they helped us shovel out all the dirt. Easy, peazy - rice and cheesy.
Several weeks passed and we ended up sending an offer in on a house I never thought we could afford. But miraculously the seller accepted the offer and our 16 year old just got to move into his own bedroom - for the first time in his life :) but still, progress for us.
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At church in Boston about 10 years ago, Roger Porter, (Reagan’s executive secretary of the Cabinet Council on Economic Affairs and director of White House Office of Policy Development, and later George H. W. Bush’s Assistant to the President for Economic and Domestic Policy from 1989 to 1993) made a comment in Sunday school.
He shared that it’s human nature to look to the next phase of our life and think it will be easier, free of trouble and opposition.
For example, he said:
When we’re in middle school, we look forward to high school.
When we’re in high school, we look forward to college.
When we’re in college we look forward to graduating and starting our career.
When we’re single, we look forward to being married.
At the end of the day each phase of our lives has different challenges.
We just dont anticipate that until we experience them.
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When Facebook was in discussions with one of my startups, hoping to acquire it or at least acqui-hire the founding team, we weren’t able to reach an agreement - which was frustrating for me.
Less than three months after those conversations ended Facebook’s stock dropped 75%.
Facebook’s $232 billion fall sets record for largest one-day value drop in stock market history
The previous record for amount of market capitalization lost in one day was Apple’s $182 billion loss in September 2020.
Facebook’s decline came after it reported weaker-than-expected first-quarter revenue Wednesday.
Facebook Parent Meta’s Metaverse Division Lost $13.7B in 2022
The social media giant reported losing $4.3 billion in the division in the fourth quarter of 2022 on revenues of $727 million.
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Luke 21:19 - The Savior said: In your patience possess ye your souls.
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Shakespeare phrased it this way:
"What win I if I gain the thing I seek?
A dream, a breath, a froth of fleeting joy.
Who buys a minute's mirth to wail a week
Or sells eternity to get a toy?
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Wait on the Lord by Henry J. Eyring
Waiting on the Lord by Elder Holland
Waiting upon the Lord: Thy Will be done by Elder Hales
How to Wait on the Lord by Elder Hales