…I would like to beg you dear Sir, as well as I can, to have patience with everything unresolved in your heart and to try to love the questions themselves as if they were locked rooms or books written in a very foreign language. Don’t search for the answers, which could not be given to you now, because you would not be able to live them. And the point is to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps then, someday far in the future, you will gradually, without even noticing it, live your way into the answer.”
—Rainer Maria Rilke
A Study in Brown (At Minnesota Landscape Arboretum)
The air has warmed up and we even had some rain yesterday. Only a few remnants of snow remain, and the grass is greening. Most of the landscape is a study in browns and greys. This time of year is a reminder that as the seasons turn, new things are born and old things die. Nothing stays the same forever. Within the cycle of seasons there lies an in-between time where the old has died but whatever comes after is still not ready to be born. I call this time the in-between.
Navigating the in-between is a lesson in patience and faith. I often struggle to hold onto faith and patience when my life is undergoing a transformation and I am in the in-between. As I’ve said before in my blog (There is No Arriving, Just Becoming), patience is not one of my virtues. So the in-between is challenging for me.
I feel as if I am still in the in-between of letting go of the old corporate life I led for many years and fully embracing and living the new creative, heart-centered life I am building. I love my life now but I have lots of unanswered questions that require patience and faith and time. Perhaps the best I can do is to “live the questions” now. Someday I will live my way into the answer. And today, I get to practice patience and faith—sigh.
May you also, love the questions, live the questions, and someday live your way into the answer.
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Everything you can imagine is real
Remnants of dirty snow are all that remain of winter
Remains of clematis flower from last summer
Single hibiscus blossom remaining
Signs of life - green parsley leaves amongst the melting snow
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