When the Heart Waits: Spiritual Direction for Life's Sacred Questions (Plus)

by Sue Monk Kidd

When you’re waiting, you’re not doing nothing. You’re doing the most important something there is. You’re allowing your soul to grow up. If you can’t be still and wait, you can’t become what God created you to be.”

We think life should be a nice, clean ascending line. But inevitably something wanders onto the scene and creates havoc with the nice way we’ve arranged life to fall in place.

crises can be holy beginnings if we allow them.

Everything incubates in darkness. And I knew that the darkness in which I found myself was a holy dark. I was incubating something new.

You see, it’s the patient act of dwelling in the darkness of a question that eventually unravels the answer.

“Be what you’re actually doing at the moment.”