I had tended to view waiting as mere passivity. When I looked it up in my dictionary however, I found that the words passive and passion come from the same Latin root, pati, which means "to endure." Waiting is thus both passive and passionate. It's a vibrant, contemplative work. It means descending into self, into God, into the deeper labyrinths of prayer. It involves listening to disinherited voices within, facing the wounded holes in the soul, the denied and undiscovered, the places one lives falsely. It means struggling with the vision of who we really are in God and molding the courage to live that vision.
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Beautifully said!! Gonna remember that.
@drkalpana, there was a shift in my paradigm reading your comment. I am at a total loss for words to accurately describe the emotions I had reading what you wrote. Thank you for being on Steemit and providing such wonderful feedback.
@razvanelulmarin, your post was wonderful as well, I love the perspective you have on Steemit.
Wow! Powerful comment. Thank you!