What are you waiting for?
The world will never approve those big dreams
those too-good-to-be-trues
It will never applaud your going-for-broke
your trusting your instinct
your following your heart
You must approve yourself
trust in it all and risk it all
that heart, that gut, that comfortable life
it must all get put on the line
(the one that keeps moving forward)
This living fully is not a choice but a calling
in the pilgrimage we find the confirmation we seek
in the discomfort we find the aliveness we crave
it is hidden not in the place we search but in our bones
it is trapped in our very being that we push aside trying to please others
we must sojourn to the emptiness we fear to find the enoughness within
and journey it back to the home of our heart where it can seed, rest, and grow
big enough to support our souls and all living beings we encounter
strong enough to cradle vulnerability in its boughs and set her down softly into the world.
It’s a question that has many excuses but only one answer.
What are you waiting for?
Monique Minahan 