Wait time in teaching is giving the opportunity to students so they can gather their thoughts and be able to formulate an answer. It is one of the toughest strategies for teachers to implement as most of us became teachers because, to a certain degree, we like the sound of our own voices. I kid, but it is difficult to wait for students when you have already decided what you want them to say.
At this point of life I am in my own personal wait time and so are several of my friends. It is a moment before transition since it is not yet time to move onto something new. As I write I wonder and ask myself, who is giving me this wait time? I give my students theirs and it dawns on me that it is God giving me my own wait time before new enters my life.
Waiting requires patience.
Waiting means leaning on God's strength and not my own understanding but on His understanding.
I can feel myself squirming as my students squirm when I do not fill in the empty, quiet space after asking a question or posing a thought.
I squirm because I don't know the answer so I'll let God prod me, I'll let him know me, and I know the answer or better yet the thoughts that need to be formed will be formed.
So, as you wait and as I wait remember to be at peace with the quiet and to ask our Lord what your heart desires to know. Lean not on your own understanding. Thank God because the work He has begun in you and in me, He will complete.
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