dailydatewithgod

So much of our experience in the world is centered around the immediate.  We are rewarded for being the first to respond and to know the answer.  I love having resolution as quickly as possible as much as anyone.  It is hard to be in the space of not knowing or contemplating.  There is a certain sense of failure often perceived with hesitation.  If you do not know the answer right away, it may be that you not wanting to say or share with another.  If you hesitate it’s because you are not ready.  Both of those might be true, but why is hesitation seen in a bad light?  It is only when we compare it to the opposite of immediate and certainty that hesitation is less than desirable   Both have a place in our experience.  When we find ourselves hesitating we can use it as an invitation to explore.  Hesitation can be less about not knowing and more about knowing you need more time to consider the idea or the feeling.  Sometimes we need the hesitation experience to sparse out which is genuine time and which is stalling.  We want to have clarity around our motives and it may require getting quiet first.  I can hesitate out of fear, as we all can.  Instead of making ourselves wrong for hesitating out of fear, we can choose to see it as God’s gift of exploration.  Maybe God wants us to be able to see our fear and bring it to him.  She knows that fear will not live long in the truth of who we are based on our design. It takes time to know what resonates most truly with our inner hearts.  It can require pause and quiet and all the things for which the world says there is no time.  If God created time then I am thinking that God perceives plenty of time for anything and everything that we allow to be reconciled to our hearts.  From there our decisions will generate more opportunities for love and peace in ourselves and in the world.  It is easy to fall prey to what we perceive as other’s necessity for immediate answers.  It take courage to hesitate and allow ourselves to rely on God to bring us to a space of true peace and love not just the momentary gratification we get from a quick response.