The Meaning of Wait

It seems that the word WAIT is haunting me.  After my last post, I have found peace with my friends passing, but the word wait continues on in my life.  Today I looked up the word wait and these were my favorite:

•  to remain inactive or in a state of repose, as until something expected happens 

• to be available or in readiness 

• to remain neglected for a time 

• to look forward to eagerly

• a period or interval of waiting

For 9 years, my husband and I have been waiting for a child. For 9 years, we have tried with no luck.  We wait.  Now we are on a new adventure, an adventure that we have remained silent about, until now.  Matt and I are trying to adopt through the state.  We are also trying to become Foster parents, but I'm tired, sad, frustrated, heart broken.  For 5 months, we wait.  Finally, we hear that we are cleared to start the training and 3 weeks later, I'm still waiting.  No word, no letter, no info, just more waiting.  Today I called, again, to find out what's happening just to hear "we are waiting". For what you ask, well for enough families to start the class.  See they have to have X number of families at the training stage before they have another class.  When will that be? How much longer must we wait? Are we going on another 5 months before we get answers? How many families are we waiting on? 

So when I looked up wait, these stood out, and put them all together, is the story of our waiting:

• Our waiting comes in intervals, with us being neglected at times, but eagerly look forward, always available and ready, until something expected happens. 

So that is the meaning of Wait.......At least to us