Waiting...

Have you ever experienced a time in your life when you seem to be getting the same message over and over and over again and finally you get the hint that maybe, just maybe, God might be trying to tell you something? Over the past month I seem to be getting the message, "wait ... be still ... quiet yourself" from every angle - books that I'm currently reading, church and chapel service meditations, hymns, spiritual direction, Scripture and meditation.

Then he took his hands and placed them on my shoulders, peered straight into my eyes and said, "I hope you'll hear what I'm about to tell you. I hope you'll hear it all the way down to your toes. When you're waiting, you're not doing nothing. You're doing the most important something there is. You're allowing your soul to grow up. If you can't be still and wait, you can't become what God created you to be." ~Sue Monk Kidd in When the Heart Waits, p. 22