Confidence in Waiting

Being means: not numbering and counting, but ripening like a tree, which doesn’t force its sap, and stands confidently in the storms of spring, not afraid that afterward summer may not come. It does come. But it comes only to those who are patient, who are there as if eternity lay before them, so unconcernedly silent and vast. I learn it every day of my life, learn it with pain I am grateful for: patience is everything! [Rainer Maria Rilke]

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I am feeling blessed - because somehow, in the last nine months, I have felt a peace that passes understanding. And now in this new position, it is an easy transition. Not like going from empty to full, but from one place to another, just the same. God's hand on me last month was no different than it is now. Because I trusted him then, I continue to trust him now - the waiting is over, in a sense, but the waiting continues. It is a good place to be. It is faith - and even that is God's gift to me. ~Peter.