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“You are in the time of the interim 
Where everything seems withheld. 
 The path you took to get here has washed out. 
 The way forward is still concealed from you. 
 The old is not old enough to have died away. 
 The new is still too young to be born.”  

-John O’Donohue

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“To know anything fully is always to hold that part of it which is still mysterious and unknowable.” -Fr Richard Rohr

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What has happened to our ability to dwell in unknowing, to live inside a question and coexist with the tensions of uncertainty? Where is our willingness to incubate pain and let it birth something new? What has happened to patient unfolding, to endurance?

These things are what form the ground of waiting. And if you look carefully, you’ll see that they’re also the seedbed of creativity and growth—what allows us to do the daring and to break through to newness. . . .

Creativity flourishes not in certainty but in questions. Growth germinates not in tent dwelling but in upheaval. Yet the seduction is always security rather than venturing, instant knowing rather than deliberate waiting.

-Sue Monk Kidd

When the Heart Waits: Spiritual Direction for Life’s Sacred Questions