Waiting can feel excruciating as it is often so tied up with uncertainty. Waiting also often invokes feeling powerless and being out of control. As we wait we are faced with uncertainty. We then have a choice around how to interact with these dynamics. Naturally, the waiting experience often contributes to anxiety.

So many of our life transitions involve big moments–going off to college, graduating, getting a first job, starting a family, etc., and we often wait and wait for these moments, yet the bulk of our life is lived in the smaller moments, the in between where we can still wait and hope for something, yet we are faced with the day before us and walking through that day.

Graduation marks something significant. It’s a period-- marking your growth, efforts, discipline, and achievement. It’s the ending of one chapter, and yet it is not an ending in and of itself. It beckons towards what is to become.

Many of these life adjustments usher in great joy and gratitude and the knowledge that we do not live stagnant lives as we are ever changing and growing. Yet, some of these adjustments bring on seasons of grief and mourning as we at some point in our journeys find ourselves adjusting to loss and having to say goodbye to a loved one. We also may find ourselves adjusting to realizing some of our dreams have not been realized and that life has taken a different course than we hoped for.