The Waiting Game

“Wait on the Will of Heaven”

So all the messages I’ve been getting lately are about ‘patience’, ‘waiting’, ‘inner focus’, ‘obstacles’, ‘struggles’, ‘walking through the darkness to come into the light’. It might just be me, but I think these are difficult messages to receive.

In our world, we want what we want when we want it…and that’s usually NOW. When you’ve spent time doing inner work, and you’ve stripped away the excess and feel you are right down to the core of what is meaningful, you have a compelling urge to act. You want to jump out of the cloister and yell, “I’m here! I’m ready to DO something!”

But all the messages say to wait.

More inner work, more patience, more obstacles are required. Obstacles from outside are nothing to worry about; there’s a shift – they used to be the most terrifying. Now, they are like flies, easily brushed away. Inner obstacles are trickier; they require honest self-reflection, humility and fearlessness to look at them straight on, acknowledge, accept and deal with.

The patience required to “wait on the will of Heaven” is in itself one of these inner obstacles. Suffering will occur from the very act of waiting, leading (with work) to true acceptance and sincere patience, which in turn leads to the end of suffering and the end of waiting. Ah!

So the waiting can begin.