A good friend of mine posted this quote on her blog awhile ago. I'd always go back to her blog to read it instead of copying and pasting it for myself. I love this friend dearly so I guess when I read it I felt like she was with me, someone who lives and feels this way too. It still captures my heart and will continue too.
"To wait open-endedly is an enormously radical attitude toward life. So is to trust that something will happen to us that is far beyond our imaginings. So, too, is giving up control over our future and letting God define our life, trusting that God moulds us according to God's love and not according to our fear. The spiritual life is a life in which we wait, actively present to the moment, trusting that new things will happen to us, new things that are far beyond our own imagination, fantasy, or prediction. That, indeed, is a very radical stance toward life in a world preoccupied with control." - Henri Nouwen
If you have never heard of or read anything by Henri Nouwen, I highly suggest you do. My life has been transformed because of his heart that he shares with us.
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