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“ Most of us think of waiting as something very passive, a hopeless state determined by events totally out of our hands… . But there is none of this passivity in scripture. Those who are waiting are waiting very actively. They know that what they are waiting for is growing from the ground on which they are standing. That’s the secret. The secret of waiting is the faith that the seed has been planted, that something has begun. Active waiting means to be present fully to the moment, in the conviction that something is happening where you are and that you want to be present to it.
Henri Nouwen, “A Spirituality of Waiting”
