“The longer you wait for something, the more you’ll appreciate it when you get it… Cause anything worth having, is definitely worth waiting…” ~ Unknown

Haloes! J

“The longer you wait for something, the more you’ll appreciate it when you get it…  Cause anything worth having, is definitely worth waiting…” ~ Unknown

Psalm 55:22 

“Cast your burden on the LORD, and he will sustain you; he will never permit the righteous to be moved…”

Matthew 11:28-29

“Come to me, all who labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you, and learn from me, for I am gentle and lowly in heart, and you will find rest for your souls…”

“The stars may fall, but God’s promises will stand and be fulfilled…” ~ J.I Packer

 “I have always, essentially, been waiting. Waiting to become something else, waiting to be that person I always thought I was on the verge of becoming, waiting for that life I thought I would have. In my head, I was always one step away. In high school, I was biding my time until I could become the college version of myself, the one my mind could see so clearly. In college, the post-college “adult” person was always looming in front of me, smarter, stronger, more organized. Then the married person, then the person I’d become when we have kids. For twenty years, literally, I have waited to become the thin version of myself, because that’s when life will really begin.  And through all that waiting, here I am. My life is passing, day by day, and I am waiting for it to start. I am waiting for that time, that person, that event when my life will finally begin. I love movies about “The Big Moment” – the game or the performance or the wedding day or the record deal, the stories that split time with that key event, and everything is re-framed, before it and after it, because it has changed everything. I have always wanted this movie-worthy event, something that will change everything and grab me out of this waiting game into the whirlwind in front of me. I cry and cry at these movies, because I am still waiting for my own big moment. I had visions of life as an adventure, a thing to be celebrated and experienced, but all I was doing was going to work and coming home, and that wasn't what it looked like in the movies.

John Lennon once said, “Life is what happens when you’re busy making other plans.” For me, life is what was happening while I was busy waiting for my big moment. I was ready for it and believed that the rest of my life would fade into the background, and that my big moment would carry me through life like a lifeboat.

The Big Moment, unfortunately, is an urban myth. Some people have them, in a sense, when they win the Heisman or become the next American Idol. But even that football player or that singer is living a life made up of more than that one moment. Life is a collection of a million, billion moments, tiny little moments and choices, like a handful of luminous, glowing pearl. It takes so much time, and so much work, and those beads and moments are so small, and so much less fabulous and dramatic than the movies.  But this is what I’m finding, in glimpses and flashes: this is it. This is it, in the best possible way. That thing I’m waiting for, that adventure, that move-score-worthy experience unfolding gracefully. This is it. Normal, daily life ticking by on our streets and sidewalks, in our houses and apartments, in our beds and at our dinner tables, in our dreams and prayers and fights and secrets – this pedestrian life is the most precious thing any of use will ever experience.” ― Shauna Niequist, Cold Tangerines: Celebrating the Extraordinary Nature of Everyday Life

Iets wat ek altyd probeer onthou, is dat ons moet dankbaar wees vir die klein dingetjies…  Want dit word baie keer die groot dinge in ons lewens!  Die bostaande stuk was vir my ongelooflik “on the money”!!  Want hoe baie is dit nie PRESIES soos hierdie skrywer dit opsom nie?  Ons wag vir die “iets” om te gebeur, wat sal maak dat ons lewe sal begin…  Of volmaak wees…  Miskien wag jy vir die perfekte man of vrou om oor jou pad te kom… Miskien wag jy om ‘n sekere ouderdom te bereik voordat jy begin om elke geleentheid te gryp en voluit te lewe…  Of miskien wil jy eers gewig verloor voordat jy daardie droom vakansie wil vat…  Miskien wil jy eers klaar werk, voordat jy jou lewe sal begin geniet, of miskien moet jy eers sorg dat die wêreld se probleme opgelos word voordat jy tyd vir jou en jou gesin sal gun…  Liewe vriend, en vriendin, die tyd is NOU…  AL waarvan ons kan seker wees, is dat ons VANDAG sal hê…  Een kans om hard te werk, om verlief en lief te wees, en om om te gee – terwyl jy nog die kans het!  Die wêreld en sy probleme sal ALTYD daar wees…  Moenie tyd mors op dinge wat nie EWIGHEIDSWAARDE het nie…  Leef jou lewe ELKE dag, sodat wanneer jy die “wenpaal” haal – jy sal kan sê – “daar is werklik NIKS waaroor ek spyt is nie…” 

Blessings!

Anel xx