204: Where Am I? – Origin Story (Part 2)
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This episode explores the importance of fully inhabiting the present moment and the challenges posed by fixation on the past and preoccupation with the future.
You are here. It turns out this matters more than we have come to believe. Consider this reflection from Henri Nouwen in The Wounded Healer: A waiting person is a person practicing patience. The word patience means to practice a daring willingness to stay where we are and live the situation out to the full, in the belief that something hidden here will make itself known to us. Impatient people are always expecting the real thing to happen somewhere else—the better thing to be somewhere other than here. Therefore, practicing impatience is to entertain and cultivate a longing to be somewhere else. The present moment is empty for them. Patient people dare to stay where they are. Patient living means living actively in the present and daringly waiting right here. Waiting, therefore, in God’s Kingdom, is not passive. It involves bravely nurturing the moment as a mother nurtures a child growing in her womb. As Nouwen reminds us, waiting carries with it both opportunity and temptation—the opportunity to become more whole and mature, united with God, and the temptation to give way to impatience, to hustle for control, or to force our will on others. In this second episode of Our Origin…
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