7 minutes: in line for coffee at each visit

15 minutes: for a table at a restaurant at each visit

21 minutes: for a significant other to get ready

28 minutes: in security lines each time one travels

32 minutes: to be seen by a doctor at each visit

42 hours: in traffic each year

43 days: on hold for customer service

They that wait upon the Lord shall renew their strength. . . .

Isaiah 40:31

Wait: Qavah

i. to look eagerly for;

ii. to lie in wait for;

iii. to hopefully wait;

iv. to expect

Patience is Power

Be joyful in hope, patient in affliction, faithful in prayer.

Romans 12:12

Patience builds power

through resistance to pressure.

Patience builds confidence in your future

when there’s a deficit in your present.

[H]ope that is seen is no hope at all. Who hopes for what they already have? But if we hope for what we do not yet have, we wait for it patiently.

Romans 8:24-25

See how the farmer awaits the precious fruit of the soil—how patient he is for the fall and spring rains. You too, be patient and strengthen your hearts, because the Lord’s coming is near.

James 5:7-8 (BSB)

Faith plants the seed — patience bears the fruit.

I wait for the Lord, my whole being waits,

and in his word I put my hope.

I wait for the Lord

more than watchmen wait for the morning,

more than watchmen wait for the morning.

Psalm 130:5-6