What is your relationship to waiting?

My relationship with waiting is intimate; it's one of respect and trust.  Here's why:

Waiting lies at the heart of GOD/Source, waiting  with infinite patience for each and every lost soul's return HOME.  Since it is a heart quality of our Beloved Creator, waiting seems to me to be a quality to look for in our experiences as well as our responses to waiting itself.     

We can look at instant gratification as the counterpoint of waiting. We can consider how waiting develops the skills of patience and tolerance.  Of course, waiting is an integral element of pregnancy and healing processes.

Heck, waiting is inimical to life itself.  Seeds, pregnant and potent wait till opportunity provides the right catalysts to wake up the dormancy of waiting.  Then, the emergence process starts and waiting provides the time and space for the miracle of life and growth.

Then there's the chamber of waiting, a seemingly lifeless shell to external observers as a cocoon sits motionless upon a branch later to rejoice in the transformation and emergence of a butterfly from a once inching along caterpillar. Life is a mystery of waiting  from composting, to tides rolling in & out, to becoming an adult, to an endless list... 

Then, there's the beauty of how SELFGnosis teaches us to behold our transitions by paying attention to how our perspective and well being shifts as well as noticing other changes we may not have anticipated. 

Such vigils are very personal and instructive.  We have the honor and responsibility of holding open Sacred Time and Space for change to occur while we forge a relationship of Trust with our guiding SELF ever fostering a deepening awe of how close we are to wisdom all the time.

I have an intimate relationship with waiting, one that started out with "ants in my pants" anxiousness always in a hurry for results, to one of peace abiding in me as I rest more and more comfortably in unfolding, vigiling, and revealing processes.

All of these have a waiting requirement that pays in great dividends .  It is powerful to be witnessing myself changing and experiencing a peace inherently within as a trusting relationship with my Inward Spirit as My Beloved SELF and best friend is made the way of my life. 

In summary:

My relationship with waiting is one of respect and trust.  I often refer to it as an act of Beholding, that is to Hold into Being something better for tomorrow than today may be holding (in time and space). 

At the heart of accepting and changing is the ability to wait with open expectation.

Again, a deep one there, Siona.

Thanks for asking because I didn’t think this one through till you asked it here, and I'm glad to see how important waiting/vigiling is for a fulfilling life.

All to Love,

Sharon