THE JOY OF WAITING

THE JOY OF WAITING

When you were young, you loved to dream and letgo of dreams. Either way, you dwelled in the Now.When you got older, you started to take your dreams and goals way too seriously, and your happiness became bound up with the future, and the destination became more important than the journey.

Dream about what you want, of course. Have a vision for the future. But learn to let your dreams go, too, let them float off into the river of life, and bring your attention back to the present moment.

Don't use a dream as an excuse to disconnect from where you are. Where you are is way too precious...Learn to love the in-between moments. Learn to love this delicious sense of waiting, yearning, anticipating.

Learn to dance and breathe in the space between the wanting and the getting, the dreaming and the resolution of dreams. Learn to love not having what you want right now. The tremendous sense of potential there, the fullness if it, the peace. Realise that 'lack' is only space, resisted. And even an 'incomplete' feeling is so complete, a welcome visitor in the heart.

Breathe into the belly, the chest, the head. Infuse the body with light, saturate it with awareness, drench it with love. Feel the fullness of the body. Lacking nothing. Wanting nothing.Even when you don't have what you want, you areinvited to want to be exactly where you are; to fall in love with the place where you stand, to contact the fertile ground as you wait, or forget the waiting and simply savour the moments.

And open your arms in gratitude, ready to receive whatever comes.Sometimes, even the 'not getting' can be so very beautiful.Behold, your abundant life.

- Jeff Foster