When You’re in a Season of Waiting

In life we can find ourselves in a season of waiting, where we long for something that seems just out of reach or when we are going through a difficult period.  This episode dives into the concept of patience, exploring both short-term and long-term waiting and the challenges that come with each.  We mix a blend of practical tips and comforting reassurances, encouraging you to imagine yourself patiently and contentedly awaiting what comes next.  Click play and let’s learn to navigate the rhythm of life as we encounter periods of waiting: finding peace in the art of patience, trusting God’s timing, and knowing that the best things are worth waiting for.

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Transcript

Sandy Kovach  [00:00:02]:

Sometimes in life, we find ourselves in seasons of waiting, and we don't know how long we're gonna be waiting. That would be the long term waiting game, but, also, the short term waiting game can play a role too. Think about how patient you are in certain situations. And so we kinda tied it all together in an episode we did in our very 1st season called Waiting Well, Patience 101, and we're gonna Revisit some of that as we look at what to do when we're in a season of waiting. I'm Sandy Kovach. On behalf of Lanee Blaise and I, welcome to Imagine Yourself podcast where we help you imagine the next chapter of life with grace, gratitude, courage, and faith.

Lanée Blaise [00:00:43]:

There are 2 kinds of patience. It's they're short term patients and long term patients. Right? Yeah. Short term patients. I think it's for those of you who Don't like to wait in line at the grocery store and deal with waiting in traffic and stuff like that. Things that will resolve themselves Usually within the hour. Right?

Sandy Kovach  [00:01:02]:

Well, it depends. If you're waiting on hold for customer service, that might

Lanée Blaise [00:01:06]:

Might take a few hours.

Sandy Kovach  [00:01:07]:

Yeah. But, no. People don't like to wait for anything. Every we want to microwave. We wanna tap something and get to a link. We wanna see a video. We don't wanna wait 3 seconds for it to load. Fortunately, we really don't have to do that.

Sandy Kovach  [00:01:19]:

Remember back in the day, though, where you used to have to wait for a video to load?

Lanée Blaise [00:01:22]:

Or I can go back even further. Do you remember dial up Internet with a little

Sandy Kovach  [00:01:27]:

Oh my gosh. Oh my gosh.

Lanée Blaise [00:01:29]:

And you'd wait and wait and wait, And then it would pull up. Yeah. I feel like do you believe that back then, we had more patients? Because we were of course, we were anxiously anticipating it coming up on our screen, But we I feel like we relaxed into it a little bit more. Whereas now, like you said, everything is being designed For our impatience. Yeah. Think about though too the difference that it might have with the next generation. If they are absolutely not Used to waiting at all. You know, like, even with us where we used to have I mean, we used to have devices like a typewriter where, you know, you'd have to sit and type it out and

Sandy Kovach  [00:02:08]:

Remember Whiteout?

Lanée Blaise [00:02:10]:

Yes. All these things. I'm just curious about this, which is why I still believe that this is an important topic to talk about. Yeah. Because even though things are being designed for our patient's level and being designed to give us quick access, That is good, I guess, for the short term, but there's remember too, there I said there were 2 things. There's long term patience. And many of those things, They take a longer time. Of course, they're not just tangible things necessarily. It's more like finding a a soulmate, You know, for that person to show up in your life, waiting through a particularly hard season. Sometimes when people have grief, There are stages of grief.

Lanée Blaise [00:02:51]:

They have to get through those stages, and they may want to snap their fingers and feel better and have this peace about their loved one being gone, But it takes patience.

Sandy Kovach  [00:03:00]:

Yeah. Or even to a smaller degree, somebody saving up money to buy a house or a car or, Of course, you know, with the instant society we're in now and the instant easy credit, maybe people don't have to do that as much. But generally, for a house, you have to Save money. But that's another thing that people don't have patience for anymore is they want things now, and they maybe borrow a little too much money.

Lanée Blaise [00:03:24]:

Yeah. It all boils down to not just patience, but the word waiting. Why do humans have such a hard time with waiting?

Sandy Kovach  [00:03:32]:

The waiting is the hardest part. Isn't that Tom Petty?

Lanée Blaise [00:03:37]:

Bring it bring it on in. Bring it in, Sandy. Okay. What about this? Is there a way that we can possibly Put a positive spin on waiting?

Sandy Kovach  [00:03:45]:

I hope so, because it's part of life. I was reading about some of the things that we wait for, And it was a Timex survey.

Lanée Blaise [00:03:54]:

The watch company?

Sandy Kovach  [00:03:56]:

I think so. Do they still make watches? I think so. Okay. K? Because, everybody's got their Apple Watch now. But some people still like the old school watches. But, anyway, so 32 minutes Is the average wait to see a doctor? 21 minutes for a significant other to get ready to go out. That's gotta be a a man waiting for a woman.

Lanée Blaise [00:04:14]:

I mean, there are some men that they gotta that Beard just right.

Sandy Kovach  [00:04:17]:

That's true. That's true. What about this? 13 hours annually waiting on hold for customer service. That's what I was talking about before.

Lanée Blaise [00:04:23]:

That's that part. 13 hours per year of your life.

Sandy Kovach  [00:04:26]:

Oh my gosh. So oh, 38 hours each year waiting in traffic.

Lanée Blaise [00:04:30]:

Yeah.

Sandy Kovach  [00:04:16]:

Those in big cities wait more than 50 hours annually. So it goes on and on. Or you were talking about lines in the grocery store. There's this one that I go to, and it's just it seems like no matter what time of day...

Lanée Blaise [00:04:42]:

See, that's the thing. Yeah. You do. I know you probably try to be very strategic in the way that you time it. Right?

Sandy Kovach  [00:04:47]:

Mhmm.

Lanée Blaise [00:04:48]:

And it still doesn't guarantee and that's another part. So that makes me think the word waiting is important, but the word control, some of these things are beyond your control. You cannot Or should not go back there and yank your doctor and say, listen. I've been waiting here for more than my 32 minutes. I'm ready to be seen. No. Do I?

Sandy Kovach  [00:04:41]:

I've never seen anybody. I have seen people get mad and go up to the receptionist at different doctor's offices before, but that doesn't happen very often

Lanée Blaise [00:05:14]:

Doesn't help.

Sandy Kovach  [00:05:15]:

I mean, they're doing the best they can I'm sure.

Lanée Blaise [00:05:19]:

Yeah. And even if they're not, you getting angry and huffy with them It's probably not gonna make them

Sandy Kovach  [00:05:26]:

No. It wouldn't make me. Well and that's your doctor. Do you really want to your doctor to be mad at you or the or the lady in the office? Like, is gonna type something in your file?

Lanée Blaise [00:05:35]:

And and or not schedule you for the next one.

Sandy Kovach  [00:05:35]:

Or like that Seinfeld episode where, Elaine, they wrote in her file, difficult patient. Do you remember that? There's a Seinfeld episode to relate to everything. But yeah.

Lanée Blaise [00:05:45]:

Because there's so many of but that's what we're getting at. We want to make sure that today, We kinda pull an overall view of putting patients in a positive light and trying to exercise That patience.

Sandy Kovach  [00:06:01]:

Okay. So let's do that. Let's do you have some strategies, Lene? What you got?

Lanée Blaise [00:06:06]:

I have okay. So I have I have Have some strategies at the end, but I kinda wanted to take us on a journey first on, like, how we're thinking. Okay. Because I believe that part of the strategy part is gonna ultimately be how we view it, how we see it, and how we come to embrace it. For me, personally, I actually am a pretty patient person by nature. Thank God. I think it's because even though I have 6 siblings now, There was a time period where I was an only child. I was an only child for 7 years.

Sandy Kovach  [00:06:37]:

Wow.

Lanée Blaise [00:06:37]:

Yeah. So I got to play in my room for just hours by myself, and I don't know if my parents were watching TV or whatever, but but I just learned to entertain myself. And I think that was helpful because, for example, when I am personally waiting in the doctor's office. I just find a way to entertain myself. And, of course, we've got our cell phones, which help. I can even get things done and read emails. I can read a book or a magazine on there. As long as I'm gonna get to pick up my kids afterward or get to my next appointment in some kind of decent time, I am really just fine just chilling, and I don't get all elevated temperature and elevated, you know, anger level.

Lanée Blaise [00:07:15]:

None of that happens. So As far as the short term patience, I'm personally really good about it because I figure as long as you get 24 hours in a day, as long as you can Get to certain things on time and you space it properly. It's all good. Just chill. Sit there for an hour.

Sandy Kovach  [00:07:31]:

People are so tightly scheduled though that sometimes and you probably find Yourself in this situation too, where you do need to get to pick up your kids or you do need to get to a meeting and the doctor or the grocery store line or the traffic.

Lanée Blaise [00:07:45]:

But guess what, Sandy?

Sandy Kovach  [00:07:46]:

They can't do anything about it.

Lanée Blaise [00:06:01]:

No. I can. I promise you, Sandy, I have taken better control of my calendar. That was on our podcast, the New Year's resolutions. I said that I wanted to manage my calendar better, and I now leave bigger spaces to get things so that I won't end up being late to the next one or getting that panic feeling where it's like, oh my goodness. I didn't schedule enough time. I really try to do a good Job of spacing it out better. It is something that can be done.

Lanée Blaise [00:08:16]:

I know that you have deadlines and you have things that are coming in, but you manage those too. You don't necessarily agree that, oh, yeah. I can get that off to you tomorrow if it's something that could wait and it's gonna just Absolutely destroy the quality and the peace and the patience that you can have in that first date to get things done.

Sandy Kovach  [00:08:35]:

It's being able to say no to things.

Lanée Blaise [00:08:37]:

Yes.

Sandy Kovach  [00:08:38]:

Yeah. I mean, that happens sometimes. Hey. Can we do this or do that? Or can you come here? Or can you get this in? And you have a choice.

Lanée Blaise [00:08:15]:

Exactly. In most cases. I mean, every once in a while, things hit you. You can't but maybe even consider scheduling a little cushion for that. So that's, you know Okay.

Sandy Kovach  [00:08:53]:

That's that's a good point.

Lanée Blaise [00:08:53]:

Right there. But the other problem, I'm not as patient or not as accepting when it's long term waiting. This is the part where I said, before we get to tips, I was really thinking, Sandy, before we came in here, Why do I have such a problem with the long term waiting, and the things that are more like we talked about as far as if you wanna find your soulmate, When will you get your next promotion and and work? Things like that. Or if someone who's waiting to have a child, when will that day come? And I think a lot of it is because in our minds, we're not necessarily as impatient about when it will happen. I think we're worried deep down inside if it will happen.

Sandy Kovach  [00:09:39]:

Oh, of course. If somebody could come down, if God could come whisper to us, Hey. Don't worry. In 2 years, you'll have that child, or don't worry. Your promotion will come in a year and a half, or your don't worry. Your kid's gonna get Straight a's next year or whatever. Yes. Your dilemma is right there.

Lanée Blaise [00:09:57]:

Yeah. Then you'd be I think you'd be happy to wait the 2 years. You'd be like me in the waiting office. Well, I mean, eventually gonna get back there to the doctor's office, so I'll just enjoy the ride because you know that it's going to happen. And I started to really get the feeling that it's That when and if dynamic. If this is gonna happen, am I gonna end up at the end of my life and that it, whatever it is, never Happened at all. Yeah. And I think that's what kind of makes that anxiety come up and that impatience come up.

Lanée Blaise [00:10:30]:

And then I started to think, what if I really try to focus in on the beautiful things and be grateful for the good things in my life, And start realizing that my life right now today is enough. Of course, it can be better. Sandy and I, you know, we always talk about imagine yourself things being better. Right? But that it is actually good enough at this current moment.

Lanée Blaise [00:09:57]:

am I making sense with this?

Sandy Kovach  [00:10:57]:

No. I like it. I'm I and I think you in the doctor's waiting room is a great analogy.

Lanée Blaise [00:11:03]:

So now here's another thing. I started thinking, what if we could interview right now the Wright brothers or Thomas Edison? Just bring them in here to the studio real quick. And say, like, because I think everybody I'm hoping everybody's kinda heard about how the Wright brothers tried for years, and they had so many different Things that play to try to get that airplane to actually fly in the air. Mhmm. And how Thomas Edison had so many different tries To get the light bulb to work and all this good stuff. If we were to interview them right now, what would they say as far as Every time that they were failing and every time that it wasn't working, did they know did they have some kinda, like, deep in their heart that they know it's gonna work? It's just I just gotta Keep at it, and it's gonna be that perfect timing, and it's gonna be that perfect filament in the light bulb that's just gonna come to me if I keep trying. And maybe that's what kept them going and kept them patient enough to not give up.

Sandy Kovach  [00:12:01]:

That's a good point. The whole thing about failing forward, and we've talked Thought that before, and I love that concept is that you have to put yourself out there, and you have to try things, and you have to be willing to fail, and you have to be willing to learn from your failure. But that patience to keep trying, and at what point do you give up? And or do you give up? And is there something that says to you, I just gotta keep going. I gotta do the next right thing. I can't worry about whether it's ever gonna happen. Or is As is argued in an article I read, sometimes impatience is not a bad thing if it is time to give up. Because sometimes they're if you're in a dead end job Or if you're in a bad relationship, you don't press forward with everything.

Lanée Blaise [00:12:45]:

I love that, but that's true. So sometimes impatience can be an indicator Yeah. That it's time to hang this up.

Sandy Kovach  [00:12:52]:

So impatience isn't always a bad word. It is in most Cases, I think. But I'm glad Thomas Edison didn't feel like he needed to be impatient and give up. But on the other hand, what if you were in a job that just This was never gonna work out for you. It just was a bad fit, and you just stayed there for years years years and got miserable.

Lanée Blaise [00:13:09]:

So it can stir you sometimes to change direction. And, again, that part about waiting and control. There are some things that are within your control. You can get your resume together and get your network game on And really try to pursue some other positions

Sandy Kovach  [00:13:25]:

Yes.

Lanée Blaise [00:13:25]:

While you are still patiently within your own Uncomfortable job. And even like I said, even if we did interview Wright Brothers and Thomas Edison, they may say, oh my goodness. I used to have this thing in the pit of my stomach of just like, ah, when is this gonna happen? But we persevered and we pushed through, I guess, with the Wright brothers too. They had support. Yeah. You know, with each other. It's like they both were feeling that same kinda way, and maybe you can kinda talk it out and just be like, okay. We're human.

Lanée Blaise [00:13:55]:

Impatience is going to rear its ugly head sometimes. In this case, we know it doesn't mean to give up. In this case, we know it means to keep trying, because the goal in this one was flight, which was so important. Yeah. But it took a while. And what about this? Is it ever good for us? It like, waiting? Yeah. Like, when we look back in hindsight, have you ever thought back, wow. That made me appreciate the gift of it when it did finally come into my life, and maybe it was good for me.

Sandy Kovach  [00:14:26]:

Yeah. It's the whole enduring trials thing.

Lanée Blaise [00:14:29]:

Yes. Which is not fun.

Sandy Kovach  [00:11:02]:

It's the whole thing of you learn how to cope with waiting. You learn patience. They say if you pray for patience, what's gonna happen is that patients isn't gonna come over you. You're gonna get a chance to exercise patients. You're gonna be in a really long line at Meijer, A grocery store you know, Meijer here in the Detroit area, people are familiar with that. But if you're not, you know, picking whatever grocery store you want, There's always yeah. Gonna be a line. So you'll find yourself in situations where you need to get patience.

Sandy Kovach  [00:15:01]:

So if that's how you get patients by What is it? Exercising your patience muscle?

Lanée Blaise [00:15:05]:

Yeah. Muscle.

Sandy Kovach  [00:15:06]:

Muscle? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. And you learn things. And you and you learn that you can, Like you were saying, be grateful for what you have.

Lanée Blaise [00:15:14]:

Yes. And here's another one too. The part again about things you can't control. What if you're looking for that mister or missus right, And you are ready. You are ready to start a relationship. You are gonna be a good partner. But whoever has been specifically designed for you, And that's gonna end up being for your best. They aren't quite ready.

Lanée Blaise [00:15:34]:

They've gotta go through a few more things before they are ready to meet you. You wouldn't want them right now. They're they're still baking in the oven. Okay. It's like, those cookies that they're so doughy and it's, like, nasty in the middle. You know?

Sandy Kovach  [00:15:46]:

You don't like cookie dough?

Lanée Blaise [00:15:48]:

I'll eat cookie dough, and I'll eat a cookie that's soft baked. But sometimes my son will bring 1 out of the oven, And I can't even hold it. It just falls off the side of my hand.

Sandy Kovach  [00:15:58]:

So that's the kind of person cookie you're talking about.

Lanée Blaise [00:16:00]:

That's right. I don't want that person to just go fall off the side of my hand. Can't even enjoy them. You know? I want, in that case and, of course, it's probably gonna be hindsight where I'm gonna realize it, That I'm so grateful that I met him when he had finished baking Yeah. Completely. So it's just

Sandy Kovach  [00:16:21]:

a matter of trusting timing.

Lanée Blaise [00:16:24]:

Yes. That's another beautiful word, timing and trust. Yeah. Okay. So we've got here the concept of discipline. We've got the concept of gratitude while we're waiting. We've got the concept of timing. Mhmm.

Lanée Blaise [00:16:41]:

Because life can have a rhythm and a timing that can be beautiful if we can get ourselves Calm enough to flow with it. I was listening back to the podcast that we did last time on relationships. Yeah. And one of The verses that I mentioned was that one, love is patient, love is kind. I was talking about that in terms of for love relationships. But Now that I'm looking back at it, can you imagine it's the Bible, and they put patient before they put kind.

Sandy Kovach  [00:17:10]:

Oh my gosh.

Lanée Blaise [00:17:11]:

That shows to me the importance of patience and the fact that humans are just we already know it. Humans are not All that patient by nature. I just feel like it might be a little better if, like you said, if we could kinda go with the timing instead of constantly complaining and constantly fighting it And go with it a little bit sometimes.

Sandy Kovach  [00:17:30]:

So check this out. Patience is the calm acceptance that things can happen in a different order than the one you have in mind. It's a David Allen quote.

Lanée Blaise [00:17:42]:

I like that.

Sandy Kovach  [00:17:43]:

I've never seen that quote before, and I am The quote queen, and I I thought, wow. I love that one.

Lanée Blaise [00:17:48]:

It was made just for just for the first one today.

Sandy Kovach  [00:17:50]:

It was for us today. It was for us today. It was for me. On Pinterest. Big hey. Pick me.

Lanée Blaise [00:17:55]:

It was baking in the oven.

Sandy Kovach  [00:17:56]:

It was baking. For this podcast. So share with everyone else. Yeah. Because it's gonna happen. Well, not everything's gonna happen. We go back okay. Some things

Lanée Blaise [00:18:05]:

are more important. If. Yeah.

Sandy Kovach  [00:18:07]:

But the chances are pretty good that Things are gonna happen. It's just a matter of timing.

Lanée Blaise [00:18:12]:

Yeah.

Sandy Kovach  [00:18:13]:

And there's no set thing. And I can remember we talked in another podcast about Society's expectations on one thing will happen, that if you're not married by 30 or if you don't have kids by 35 or if you don't Have x number of dollars in the bank by 50 or, you know, whatever. You know what I'm saying?

Lanée Blaise [00:18:33]:

Norms. Yeah. And I think a lot of people are Starting to reevaluate those norms. A lot of people in these upcoming generations are kinda realizing, I want to get A few things done and under my belt before I get married, before I have children, with the belief and the hope that there will still be time for those things to come along also. And so it's that whole individual mindset where everybody doesn't fit into that same little box and standard.

Sandy Kovach  [00:19:04]:

And stop being pressured by society. Yeah. And you see your friend, you know, getting engaged on social media or You see, Joe Blow's son is going to this great college. And

Lanée Blaise [00:19:16]:

It all goes back to, are we feeling enough for this time in our life? And I think we need to sometimes just calm ourselves down and reflect within and think, yes. My life is enough. I don't need to compare myself to everyone else, and I don't need to, you know, put all this burden on my back to produce By a certain deadline.

Sandy Kovach  [00:19:41]:

So a lot of the impatience may be imposed on us by expectations that We have of ourselves or we feel others put upon us.

Lanée Blaise [00:19:49]:

Yeah. So and, of course, you know, we talked about this before too. Instant gratification just Doesn't seem to help.

Sandy Kovach  [00:19:55]:

No. Because, yeah, everything is instant in our study way more so than back in the day.

Lanée Blaise [00:20:00]:

And when you start getting into that rhythm, Sometimes it's not a healthy place to be. You realize, oh, I can get no. I do love my Amazon. I can go on Amazon and order a b c items in 30 seconds, And have them at my house in 24 to 48 hours. So you get used to that. I don't want too many of us to start Extrapolating that out to long term patients things and start thinking, well, I should be able to just go online dating And find myself a man, it's gonna be my husband just, you know, in 24 to 48 hours. Yeah. It's

Sandy Kovach  [00:20:35]:

probably not gonna work out very well.

Lanée Blaise [00:20:37]:

I would think not. So it's about Thinking through things and thinking about why we feel certain ways so that we can get to the actual tips. So if you're ready for it, maybe we just jump to the takeaway time, and that could be the tip for the day too.

Sandy Kovach  [00:20:53]:

Is that our takeaway tip time? Yeah. Takeaway tip time. Because I've been impatient for it. I've been waiting since the beginning of the episode.

Lanée Blaise [00:20:59]:

So I am thinking all that really boils down to Is kinda like what I alluded to before. Sit yourself down for a minute. Physically, sit down. And whether it's for a short term or a long term wait, It's almost like those, relaxation exercises. You know, sit in a calm place and concentrate on your breathing, and kind of pretend like nothing else is there. And there really is beauty and benefit to that, honestly, to that calming down and relaxing. Because when you get to that State of relaxation, you start to be able to listen to what's really coming from you versus all the noise of the outside world. And then I want you to think back to a situation, any old situation in your life from the past, where you had to wait for something that ended up working out for you And how it was worth the wait.

Lanée Blaise [00:21:52]:

And if you are really sitting calmly and you give yourself time, you will be able to land on something Yeah. In your life. You know?

Sandy Kovach  [00:21:59]:

And think about what was worth the wait, and what did you learn while you were waiting maybe.

Lanée Blaise [00:22:02]:

Yes. Because many times when you have Previous examples from your life, it gives you the confidence to move forward and believe that that can happen again. Yeah. So you reflect on how you can, again, have gratitude for the life that you currently have. And even though you know that Things can be better whenever x y z happens. You begin to slowly have that willingness To be able to wait patiently and calmly for it to appear. And you think about the cookies, bacon, and the you think about all that. And just understand, once you have done all of the things that are in your power to help Bring forth the situation.

Lanée Blaise [00:22:50]:

Once you have sent off that resume, you have met up with that particular person, you have Even done the little online dating app and set up your profile. Once you have begun things moving in the direction that you want to, It's just like a delicious pot of soup. Just let it sit and marinate for a while.

Sandy Kovach  [00:23:11]:

In the slow cooker?

Lanée Blaise [00:23:12]:

Yes. Are we

Sandy Kovach  [00:23:14]:

in the slow cooker, Lynette?

Lanée Blaise [00:23:15]:

We're in the slow cooker, and it's gonna be delicious.

Sandy Kovach  [00:23:18]:

Not the Instant Pot?

Lanée Blaise [00:23:20]:

Today is not an Instant Pot day.

Sandy Kovach  [00:23:23]:

Okay.

Lanée Blaise [00:23:23]:

The Instant Pot is broken today.

Sandy Kovach  [00:23:25]:

A slow cooker today.

Lanée Blaise [00:23:26]:

Do the slow cooker.

Sandy Kovach  [00:23:27]:

You can do slow cooking in an Instant Pot, can't you?

Lanée Blaise [00:23:30]:

You can, but not today because it's broken.

Sandy Kovach  [00:23:33]:

Okay. So I'm a get my Slow cooker crock pot out.

Lanée Blaise [00:23:37]:

Yes. Get the crock pot. Because you want that savory, delicious Stew that took time to create, and it was worth it.

Sandy Kovach  [00:23:47]:

It was marinating.

Lanée Blaise [00:23:48]:

Yes. So get ready. And in the meantime, imagine yourself peacefully, contently, Trustingly, gratefully, patiently waiting for the next best thing to land in your life.

Sandy Kovach  [00:24:07]:

Thanks for listening. We certainly hope this episode was a good time investment for you. We would love to hear what you think. If you could drop us a rating or review, we would much appreciate that. Get in touch with us anytime through imagine yourself podcast.com or any of our social media feeds, you can find those links also in the show notes and on our website. Right? And if you're listening during the holiday season when we are releasing this episode, wishing you and your family a very wonderful Christmas and New Year.