Throne Room Moments: Musings of an Imperfect Princess

I know this may come as a shock to some, but I'm not exactly the most patient person in the world.  While I'm pretty easy going about most things, one of my biggest pet peeves is traffic. It's the bane of my existence. I would rather take a lesser-known longer route, but stay moving than to have to endure the stop and go of a popular "shortcut".   Recently, I found myself in a BIG traffic jam. Two hours of inching along, the red glow of taillights illuminating the night sky. There were moments when I'd surge forward and move a few feet, but as quickly as the surge came, it went and my agonizing crawl resumed.     Life is like that sometimes. We seem to get "stuck" in a certain place. Whether it be a place of waiting, a place of suffering, or a place of busyness; whatever it may be, it feels that no matter what we do, we can't move forward and we can't go back.     We look around at our friends in other lanes and they seem to be zoomi...

It's the envelope most Americans dread to pull out of the mailbox...Jury Duty summons (cue dramatic dun dun duh!). A few months ago, I was the lucky winner of an all expenses paid trip to the county courthouse!  (cue sarcastic applause). So bright and early on the designated Monday morning, I and more than one hundred of my closest acquaintances gathered in the Jury Assembly Room at the local courthouse. As I sat there, waiting for the process to get started I flipped through the booklet they give you when you walk in. Among the pages with info about the judges, the court process, and what's expected of potential jury members, was a phrase that struck a chord: "Waiting serves a purpose." The phrase was to remind you that even though it seems like you're just sitting around for no reason, there's a lot of things going on behind the scenes. Cases are being settled, new evidence is coming to light, accused criminals are confessing to crimes, and ultimate...