"People who wait have received a promise that allows them to wait. They have received something that is at work in them, like a seed that has started to grow. This is very important. We can only really wait if what we are waiting for has already begun for us. So waiting is never a movement from nothing to something. It is always a movement from something to something more...
The secret to waiting is the faith that the seed has been planted, that something has begun. Active waiting means to be present fully to the moment, in the conviction that something is happening where you are and that you want to be present to it."The Weavings Reader, Henry Nouwen
This is an interesting thought. It is the idea that there is something solid within us that knows we are grounded in Him, yet there is also an acknowledgement that we long for something different or something more as well.
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