In The Waiting

We are all waiting for something.

I am waiting for my book to be published. A few minor glitches, a little impatience, a bit of frustration, but it will arrive. In time.

I wonder what you are waiting for.

The world is waiting for Russia to stop; Ukrainians are waiting for war to be over. Our waiting is nothing compared to theirs, but when the world waits on the edge of chaos and confusion, heartbreak, and death, we feel overwhelmed.

This is what makes our thoughts so critical; somehow, we must learn to calm ourselves and bring peace and hope to ourselves and to a hurting world.

• Consider limiting your constant updates.

• Consider quieting yourself with a walk.

• Consider listening to the conversation you are having within.

My internal dialogue is running at one hundred miles an hour, “I said I would have the book published soon, now there is a delay. What will happen, what will people think? What should I do?” “What is happening in Mariupol?

What I could do is rest from it all. Things will unfold and we will need to keep going, keep hoping, keep waking and working. As the Easter season reminds us, there is always more to the story.

Time to cultivate thoughts and habits that bring a hush within, and an undisturbed presence to the upheaval all around us.

“It is not our part to master all the tides of the world, but to do what is in us for the succor of those years wherein we are set, uprooting the evils in the fields that we know, so that those who live after may have clean earth to till. What weather they shall have is not ours to rule.”

Lord of the Rings

Return of the King

J.R.R. Tolkien