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as fate would have it

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Let us, then, be up and doing

With a heart for any fate;

Still achieving, still pursuing,

Learn to labor and to wait.

– Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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Life’s labors have always come fairly easy to me. I’ve never minded working really hard. The waiting on the other hand,  has not been so easy. But these days, I am now recognizing the wait is an opportunity to slow my pace, to quiet my mind, to live more deliberately.

In the wait, words jump off the page as if they were written for me. Gifts of everyday life appear at every corner.  It’s exactly the Universal nod I have needed. The more still I become, the more is revealed to me. Wonder, truth, authenticity, a heart for any fate.

What is the Universe revealing to you? Words? Pictures? Dreams? Share your work and your wait.

Comments

  11. Couldn’t agree more. Waiting is sooo not my strong suit. The up-and-doing kind of gal that I am does love to make detailed plans of when and how she will slow down, plotting against her very nature. Someday, I figure, my pace will decelerate on its own and I won’t have to work at bending and warping her into some other form. 🙂

    http://www.flickr.com/photos/31866449@N04/3306730263/

  21. Tracey, this is a really thought-provoking post for me, because I’m a Christian, and we so often talk about what it means to "wait on the Lord," but we never really DO wait on Him. I can really relate to what you’re saying about finding the freedom not to fight, to wait, to see what I will discover, what it is He has for me every moment of every day, instead of getting caught up in endless pursuit. I think He has me in a time of waiting right now, a time of trust that He holds tomorrow and I can live today without fear.

    I took this photo and wrote this post this weekend, as I’ve been slowly sorting out my priorities and trying to decide what is best and important…

    http://livingbygrace.blogspot.com/2009/04/i-hope-you-still-feel-small.html

  23. I have just started dabbling in TtV and looking at my world through a "new" viewfinder has made me reassess the things around me, to see beauty and wonder in the things I was taking for granted. Look around with new eyes!
    I don’t have a specific post to point you to, but if anyone is interested, check out the last week in my blog life 🙂
    http://www.thejaxon4.blogspot.com

  28. I walk for inspiration, especially to a nearby spiritual retreat with a rock meditation garden and a labyrinth to walk. Walking the labyrinth definitely slows my pace, quiets my mind, and makes me become more deliberately aware.

    Today’s post was coincidentally one of the rock stacks: http://caramoulds.com/index.php?showimage=323