As a side note I believe I have learned, over the years, never to ask for a virtue like patience. Because do you know how God gives you the opportunity to work on a virtue like patience? Yeah. By helping you find ways to practice it. Oh sure, I guess it involves some pouring out of grace but right now I'm kind of in a let's-sulk-around-the-house-about-how-much-being-patient-and-waiting-for-the-psych-people-to-call-stinks type of mood and I've been doing a fair job of ignoring that fact.
Except that in my head, when there's no suffering at all going on, I make these crazy requests to God to grow in love and understanding, even though I'm beginning to have an inkling of what the answers to those types of prayers generally require.
You see, even in the perfect little world in my head I know that growing towards sainthood, even with the outpouring of grace required, doesn't happen in a vacuum.

In fact, I can even see the tininess of the things that seem like "suffering" to me in my day to day life, at least from a distance, when I'm in a mood to examine these sorts of things. Those moments of perspective, incidentally, also usually happens to be when I'm in the mood to request whatever sufferings God would like to send my way so that I might grow and become more like my savior.
From a distance it always sounds like an awesome idea... and it makes me feels so brave, like I'm trucking along down the road to sainthood (I think that usually happens right before a face plant of some sort, which you can probably see coming from a mile away).

Still, we push on and I try to pray for the grace to be a little bit less of a weeny the next time it inevitably happens (those boot wearing toddler feet are dangerous!). And some days (okay, more like moments) I actually feel like I'm toddling along in the right direction with teeny tiny steps... by succeeding at something small like not whining about a headache for an entire hour (inevitably the headache lamentations still usually tumble out of my mouth after a point, however...).
This isn't the post I set out to write... but I have to say, having written it and having thought about actual suffering, like the sufferings of the saints in the book Sadie is always pushing into my lap, the fact that my phone still hasn't rung suddenly seem like a much, much smaller problem than it did when I began. And that's something.
Baby steps. Baby steps...
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ReplyDeleteWaiting is no fun, but the young man's posts, and the conversations among him and his ASD buddies is fascinating and IMO more help that your doctors will be. I don't think anything is as useful as adults who know because they live with it talking about what therapies were good and which were a waste of time-- who better to know?
You can always call them for results too. The worst they can say is, "the results aren't in yet." But likely, your file is just sitting in a "to call" pile with others. Can't hurt!
ReplyDeleteI'd call. I find if they havent its because they forgot or have this expectation that you will call or there's some hold up and it will be longer than anticipated. My husband's office mate waited a whole month to get office keys because she said nothing. Too often we need to be sqeaky wheels. Being impatient to me is if you call before they said they would.
ReplyDeleteI'd wait until tomorrow morning, but if they haven't called by then, you should call. It is past when they said they'd call, it will still give them the day to get back to you if they need to and hopefully you'll have an answer before the weekend.
ReplyDeleteI hate waiting for calls like this.
Call them. That is all.
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Yeah, there's nothing wrong with calling. I usually end up having to when dealing dr's offices.
ReplyDeleteThank you for writing this. It made me smile and lessened my load. Our prayers are with you and your family.
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