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Henri Nouwen (via steba)

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 else.



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To wait open-endedly is an enormously radical attitude toward life.

So is to trust that something will happen to us that is far beyond our imaginings. So,
too, is giving up control over our future and letting God define our life,
trusting that God molds us according to God's love and not according to our
fear.

The spiritual life is a life in which we wait, actively present to
the moment, trusting that new things will happen to us, new things that are far
beyond our own imagination, fantasy, or prediction. That, indeed, is a very
radical stance toward life in a world preoccupied with control.