Daily Question, January 1 What am I waiting for? 65 Reflections Share Click here to cancel reply.Please log in or Create a Profile to post a comment. Sherri4 months agoSherriI keep waiting for some sense of anticipation, excitement, passion, commitment. It’s been so long since I’ve felt any of these things, that it’s hard to move. 6 Reply Michele4 months agoMicheleI like your profile picture-cardinal is my favorite bird. 0 Reply Holly in Ohio4 months agoHolly in OhioI wish you luck in getting moving. With myself I often found health to come first... walking, healthy food, water, and whatever other health needs I had. Then comes structure - some commitment that forces my to show up, get out of the house, engage with others. I don't know if that helps you. I know it is very difficult to get moving sometimes even though we want to so much! I wish you the best, Sherri, and thank you for posting this honestly because I have been there and it reminds me I can b...I wish you luck in getting moving. With myself I often found health to come first… walking, healthy food, water, and whatever other health needs I had. Then comes structure – some commitment that forces my to show up, get out of the house, engage with others. I don’t know if that helps you. I know it is very difficult to get moving sometimes even though we want to so much! I wish you the best, Sherri, and thank you for posting this honestly because I have been there and it reminds me I can be thankful that I’m moving now. Best wishes and happy New Year! Read More5 Reply Mica4 months agoMicaI had a gloomy day last fall when I couldn’t see what more there was in my life. The granddaughters are more distant now, as teen and tween, and I felt rather useless. ‘Curiosity’ is what called to me – Curiosity about what the rest of my life will bring. And I’m making progress at connecting better with the granddaughters. 6 Reply Holly in Ohio4 months agoHolly in OhioThat is wonderful, Mica. And your science and presentations are also a way you contribute! As is what you share here. 🙂 4 Reply Sylvia Haley4 months agoSylvia HaleyTo me 2021 was an awakening. I learned that when I quiet the noise around me ,I can hear my soul speak. And so for this new year what I want is even more connection with like minded people. Happy New Year everyone. 10 Reply Mica4 months agoMicaI think you’ll find like-minded people here, Sylvia Haley – I have! 🤗 welcome – 🙏 5 Reply Carol4 months agoCarolI sat here pondering the question. For me, waiting is to be open minded and willing for whatever life is offering me in this moment, this day. I share a quote from T.S. Elliot and a poem by David Whyte that express how I responded when I read today’s question. For me, life is not about goals. It is process not product. I’m more concerned with what awaits me than what I’m waiting for. Everything is waiting for you by David WhyteYour great mistake is to act the drama as if you were alone. A...I sat here pondering the question. For me, waiting is to be open minded and willing for whatever life is offering me in this moment, this day. I share a quote from T.S. Elliot and a poem by David Whyte that express how I responded when I read today’s question. For me, life is not about goals. It is process not product. I’m more concerned with what awaits me than what I’m waiting for. Everything is waiting for you by David WhyteYour great mistake is to act the drama as if you were alone. As if life were a progressive and cunning crime with no witness to the tiny hidden transgressions. To feel abandoned is to deny the intimacy of your surroundings. Surely, even you, at times, have felt the grand array; the swelling presence, and the chorus, crowding out your solo voice You must note the way the soap dish enables you, or the window latch grants you freedom. Alertness is the hidden discipline of familiarity. The stairs are your mentor of things to come, the doors have always been there to frighten you and invite you, and the tiny speaker in the phone is your dream-ladder to divinity. Put down the weight of your aloneness and ease into the conversation. The kettle is singing even as it pours you a drink, the cooking pots have left their arrogant aloofness and seen the good in you at last. All the birds and creatures of the world are unutterably themselves. Everything is waiting for you. “I said to my soul, be still, and wait without hope For hope would be hope for the wrong thing; wait without love For love would be love of the wrong thing; there is yet faith But the faith and the love and the hope are all in the waiting. Wait without thought, for you are not ready for thought: So the darkness shall be the light, and the stillness the dancing. ~ T.S. Eliot ~ Read More8 Reply Mike4 months agoMikeLovely. 1 Reply Howie Geib4 months agoHowie GeibTiming is everything. Life seems full of interruptions. I have found these very intrusions to be, in fact, laden with meaning, power and purpose. Restraint of my will, of my agenda, demanded by unlooked for opportunity, is a holy waiting. Often I am waiting for a signal, a sign, for a word. Through which life seems to suggest, more like command, a particular response from me. Which is perhaps why waiting can be another word for service. 4 Reply Michele4 months agoMichelevalidation from someone soulmate/twin flame Covid to end Happy New Year everyone:) 4 Reply Maurice Frank4 months agoMaurice FrankI’m not waiting, I’m avoiding. I hope my reasons are good. 5 Reply Holly in Ohio4 months agoHolly in OhioYes. I realized with today's question that I'm waiting for my brother not to be such an inconsiderate, resentful person, which is not a good thing to wait for, for so many reasons! But I have been avoiding communicating again with him because I really don't know how to address how he treated us recently, or how to respond to his covering it up. I don't know whether to disagree with what he last said, or do my own pretending like it doesn't matter. I don't know if this is at all like your situ...Yes. I realized with today’s question that I’m waiting for my brother not to be such an inconsiderate, resentful person, which is not a good thing to wait for, for so many reasons! But I have been avoiding communicating again with him because I really don’t know how to address how he treated us recently, or how to respond to his covering it up. I don’t know whether to disagree with what he last said, or do my own pretending like it doesn’t matter. I don’t know if this is at all like your situation, Maurice, but I appreciated your posting because it brought me face-to-face with my own avoidance. I don’t know in my case either if my reasons are good! 🙄 Read More4 Reply Maurice Frank4 months agoMaurice FrankHolly, I hope that your relationship with your brother can heal, if not soon, then whenever it can. 2 Reply Holly in Ohio4 months agoHolly in OhioThank you, Maurice! I think it will. There is no animosity, just trying to find a healthy path. I wish you luck in your situation, too! 😊 1 Reply EJP4 months agoEJPI’m waiting for new doors to open and a light to shine on the path that I need to take in this new year. 6 Reply sunnypatti4 months agosunnypattiI'm waiting for Covid to be a thing of the past. I know it's coming! I was also waiting for this new year to kick in so I could start my yoga teacher training. I've dipped in a little, but with the holidays, the days have been filled with work, family, and preparations for gatherings and catering events with my husband. That's all simmering down now, and I am going to dedicate time each day to this goal. I'm really excited about it! Happy New Year, gratefulness friends! Be well and know t...I’m waiting for Covid to be a thing of the past. I know it’s coming! I was also waiting for this new year to kick in so I could start my yoga teacher training. I’ve dipped in a little, but with the holidays, the days have been filled with work, family, and preparations for gatherings and catering events with my husband. That’s all simmering down now, and I am going to dedicate time each day to this goal. I’m really excited about it! Happy New Year, gratefulness friends! Be well and know that you are loved! Read More8 Reply Mica4 months agoMicaHappy yoga 🧘♀️ 🧘♂️ teacher training, dear sunnypatti! I enjoyed mine, many years ago – 2 Reply Mary Pat4 months agoMary PatThat still, small voice I hear every New Years morning that tells me deep in my soul my word or words for the year. Some years it comes to me by now, other years it takes a little longer, but it comes like a dear, old friend, wiser than the distracted clamoring me that is always "doing". The Light will come, there is no doubt, but in its time. Last year my word was murmuration, and it was true. And perfect. Happy New Year to all, and may this new year be filled with much love, Light, a...That still, small voice I hear every New Years morning that tells me deep in my soul my word or words for the year. Some years it comes to me by now, other years it takes a little longer, but it comes like a dear, old friend, wiser than the distracted clamoring me that is always “doing”. The Light will come, there is no doubt, but in its time. Last year my word was murmuration, and it was true. And perfect. Happy New Year to all, and may this new year be filled with much love, Light, and laughter. Read More7 Reply Dusty Su4 months agoDusty SuOoh, I do the same thing. I love what you have shared Mary Pat. Each year I too choose a word to act out of, filter life, and journal by. For 2017 my word was GRACE... living in the spirit of grace blessed my being and then, in turn, others. For 2018 my word was EMBODIMENT... I strove to live out my dreams, hopes, and aspirations in new ways. For 2019 my word was RECOGNITION...I spent the year endeavoring to see deeply within and truly recognize the divinity. within all, as well as diff...Ooh, I do the same thing. I love what you have shared Mary Pat. Each year I too choose a word to act out of, filter life, and journal by. For 2017 my word was GRACE… living in the spirit of grace blessed my being and then, in turn, others. For 2018 my word was EMBODIMENT… I strove to live out my dreams, hopes, and aspirations in new ways. For 2019 my word was RECOGNITION…I spent the year endeavoring to see deeply within and truly recognize the divinity. within all, as well as difficult truths. For 2020 my word was SOUL-SIMPLE… which meant to strip back the unnecessary and tread lightly in ways that make mindful impacts to others, myself, and our dear planet. COVID-19 losses made that practicable. For 2021 my word was KINDNESS… what scopes the wonderful gift of KINDNESS taught me were wonderful. Ha, of course, I feel I could have done better with being kind, but I’ll be kind to myself in my self evaluation! For 2022 my word is ADVENTURE…I am adding venture to all I do and the currency of those ventures is openness to new things, ways of being and blessing, empty hands and an open heart, compassion. There is much I wish to embody this NEW YEAR! Much I hope we all can. Have a wonderful 2022. Read More4 Reply Mary Pat4 months agoMary PatDusty Su, YOU gave me a great idea. I just started a document that will have the word of the year and how it came to be, whether by dream, a thought, or a way of Knowing….. I remembered last years, and put down this years…can’t remember the others, but I have started-great idea…thanks! 2 Reply Dusty Su4 months agoDusty SuI also ask others what their word for the year is. Gets them thinking. Great thing to share. 3 Reply Mica4 months agoMicaMurmuration – that’s quite a word, Mary Pat! google says, Although Starlings are not the only birds that do it, a murmuration is a term more specifically used for starling flocks. Starlings use murmuration to confuse predators and to keep warm. Most other birds “flock together” to travel long distances and flocking reduces their energy expenditure. But your murmuration might be the other definition. 🦅 🦅 Happy new year! 🦢 2 Reply Mary Pat4 months agoMary PatYes, it has. I studied the word last year, and it also means that when one of the birds in the front needs to rest or is injured, another takes its’ place and the injured or tired bird goes to the back or in the back into the middle, where it is protected and warmer. It applied to my life last year in so many ways, as I was injured and needed rest. My family and my church community took care of me and I received the rest and time for healing I needed. I always study the word I receive in dept...Yes, it has. I studied the word last year, and it also means that when one of the birds in the front needs to rest or is injured, another takes its’ place and the injured or tired bird goes to the back or in the back into the middle, where it is protected and warmer. It applied to my life last year in so many ways, as I was injured and needed rest. My family and my church community took care of me and I received the rest and time for healing I needed. I always study the word I receive in depth. Read More3 Reply Mica4 months agoMicaThat’s wonderful – thanks, and congratulations, Mary Pat 2 Reply Kevin4 months agoKevinI am waiting for the rain to stop so that my rowing team can undertake its traditional New Year’s Day row in just a few hours! I am waiting for the day to arrive when we can all see Covid in our rear view mirrors of life. Happy New Year to my friends here at Gratefulness! 9 Reply Dusty Su4 months agoDusty SuFor Covid to stop closing borders/changing travel plans. Then I can go to Thailand, close up my 30 years of work there officially after a two-year absence. Then to the USA and onto Belize and help set up the first Hospice/home-care for end of life in the country. By the way, a very blessed New Year to everyone. Thank you for your kind, positive, wise companionship these past two-plus years. 12 Reply pkr4 months agopkrHappiest of New Years to you dear Dusty Su. ✨ Prayers for you & your dreams. 🙏❤️🙏 3 Reply Dusty Su4 months agoDusty SuThank you, dear heart 🥰👍much appreciated. 1 Reply Michele4 months agoMicheleHappy New Year to you too Dusty Su. I hope you get to fulfill your dream and start your Belize trip very soon. Thank you for the work you do:) 3 Reply Dusty Su4 months agoDusty SuThanks, so much, Michele 🥰👍 1 Reply 4 months agoDear Dusty, my your hopes soon be realized and if you would welcome prayer for that to come about, I’ll surely pray that your isles come true. I am a cancer patient (Roswell Cancer Institute, Buffalo, NY)…thank you with all my heart. Sister KathleenO’Neill 9 Reply Dusty Su4 months agoDusty SuSister Kathleen, I’d love those prayers, and you have mine ❤ How would you like me to pray? 1 Reply Kevin4 months agoKevinThank you, Dusty Su! Blessings on you and your important work in the New Year ahead, too. 4 Reply Dusty Su4 months agoDusty SuThanks so much, Kevin. Hope your year is wonderful and your pain subsides. 1 Reply « Previous 1 2 My Private Gratitude Journal Write an entry in your private gratefulness journal Get Started This site is brought to you by A Network for Grateful Living, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit. All donations are fully tax deductible in the U.S.A. DONATE https://gratefulness.org/content/uploads/2015/03/GX-Gold-Participant-L.png Community Engagement Guidelines Privacy Policy [email protected] Connect with us on Social Media: © 2000 - 2022, A Network for Grateful Living Website by Briteweb