402. How may years (centuries) have some of our ancestors waited for their Temple Ordinances?
The Biggest Wait of all! by Joni Hilton, for Meridian Magazine, April 22, 2015. For a guy who’s known more for math skill than verbal prowess, Albert Einstein has nevertheless given us some great quotes. One of my favorites is “Put your hand on a hot stove for a minute, and it seems like an hour. Sit with a pretty girl for an hour, and it seems like a minute. That’s relativity.” Indeed, our perception of time varies tremendously. A pregnant woman can feel as if it takes an eternity for those nine months to conclude, yet her child grows up in the blink of an eye. Waiting five minutes on hold during a phone call seems unconscionable. But a five minute wait to see our doctor could find us smiling, “Oh, wow—already?” I think we can all agree that life is filled with waiting. We wait for our children to learn good behavior. We wait for crops to grow, cakes to bake, trains to arrive and rain to come (or stop). We wait for someone to text us