“It is a characteristic of the best
of us that we are in a hurry. To wait is even harder than to be
adventurous. The hardest time of all is the time in between. At the
moment of decision, there is the excitement and the thrill; at the moment of
achievement there is the glow and glory of satisfaction; but, in the
intervening time, it is necessary to have the ability to wait and work and
watch when nothing seems to be happening. It is then that we are most
liable to give up our hopes and lower our ideals and sink into an apathy whose
dreams are dead. Men and women of faith are people whose hope is flaming
brightly and whose effort is intensely strenuous even in the grey days when
there is nothing to do but wait.” --William Barclay in The New Daily
Study Bible: The Letter to the Hebrews, page 172.