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The Joy that waiting brings.

"All we know is that growth—the budding, the flowering of love needs patient waiting. We have to give each other time to grow. There is no way we can make someone else truly love us or we love them, except through time. So we give each other that mysterious gift of waiting—of being present without making demands or asking rewards. There is nothing harder to do than this. It tests the depth and sincerity of our love. But there is life in the gift we give.

So lovers wait for each other until they can see things the same way, or let each other freely see things in quite different ways. What do we lose when lovers hurt each other and cannot regain the balance and intimacy of the way they were? They have to wait—in silence—but still be present to each other until the pain subsides to an ache and then only a memory, and the threads of the tapestry can be woven together again in a single love story.

 

What do we lose when we refuse to wait? When we try to find short cuts through life, when we try to incubate love and rush blindly and foolishly into a commitment we are neither mature nor responsible enough to assume? We lose the hope of ever truly loving or being loved. Think of all the great love stories of history and literature. Isn’t it of their very essence that they are filled with the strange but common mystery—that waiting is part of the substance, the basic fabric—against which the story of that true love is written?

How can we ever find either life or love if we are too impatient to wait for it?"

-an excerpt from Fr. James Donelan, S.J.'s The Sacrament of Waiting

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Isn't HE just wonderful? Whenever we think too much or get paranoid over planning way ahead, HE knocks in and calms us down- telling us that HE has better plans for us than what we have for ourselves. HIS plans may not always align with what we want for ourselves but surely, it is always for the better. Cheers to waiting! :')

*This picture was taken outside UP in 2008. It was a busy afternoon and it started raining. Everybody was trying to get ahead of everyone in riding the next jeepney so they can go home and we just decided to stay a bit later, letting everyone go and get their ride first. It was a good and breezy 30-minute rest from everything and all we could hear was the sound of raindrops ticking as they fall on the ground and the click of the camera as I try to capture the moment and US in it. I wish I can tell you what we were talking about back then but all I can remember was how good it felt to just sit there, talk and laugh with him. I miss him and I miss US but I understand we cannot play God. HE knows better and we CAN wait for what he has in store for the both of us. :')

**here's the link for The Sacrament of Waiting. http://sonoftheprodigal.blogspot.com/2006/02/sacrament-of-waiting.html

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