The Hold Music I've Now Memorized RedeemedExistence daily devotional — September 19, 2026 I have been on hold with our insurance company so many times this month that I recognize the hold music by the second bar, a tinny saxophone loop that repeats every ninety seconds, and I have started to dread it the way I used to dread other things I could not control. A billing code got entered wrong after my son's visit to urgent care in July, and every call to fix it ends the same way, a polite voice telling me the request has been escalated, a promise that someone will call back within five to seven business days that never quite arrives. I have spent what feels like entire afternoons of my life this month holding a phone to my ear, tapping my foot, refreshing an online portal that never updates, watching the little bar spin. What has surprised me is not the frustration itself, which I expected, but how much it has exposed about how little patience I actually have when nothing ...