CHRISTIAN COMMENT What are you waiting for?

AMONG the many Christmas ads on television at the moment is the one featuring the little boy waiting impatiently for Christmas day.

Now, in my book, there’s two kinds of waiting.

There’s the frustrating kind: waiting to be put through to a human being on a company phone system, waiting to be served at a busy checkout, waiting for a doctor’s appointment and there’s the nice kind, which involves anticipating or planning for something.

I like anticipating Christmas (though I dislike the hassle and queues involved in preparing for it).