Sometimes When We Just Stay Still, The Grace Finds Us

This is a quote by Mary Davis, and I posted it a week or so ago. I was sharing it with a good friend recently. We both had shared stories about how relevant this was for each of us at that moment.

We laughed because it felt like we’d be learning this lesson repeatedly, needing to be reminded of it time and time again.

In our society, we’re so focused on productivity and solutions and checking things off our lists, that the idea of staying still feels impossibly hard to do. But it doesn’t require us to stop all movement. It just asks us to put a pin in the thing that’s worrying us, to put it aside for a bit and let the answer, the grace find us.

Many’s the time I didn’t heed this advice and rushed headlong into action, only to realize that had I waited, had I allowed the grace to find me, I’d have made a better decision.

Recently I tried this in two different areas. In both cases, the right action came to me in simple, yet profound ways. I mentioned one case a couple of blogs ago. The second case was one where I was struggling for weeks with uncertainty over how to solve a problem at work. A chance course on AI prompts immediately provided me the way forward.

Try this ONE thing

Take one thing you are struggling with and just stay still. Let the grace find you. I promise it will.

Want to experience coaching? I like to start with a deep, get-to-know-you conversation to see if we are right for each other. Sometimes we talk for one or two hours at no charge. I have no goal except to bring about transformation. Together we work on the lies, the self-deception, the fears of the power you perceive to be outside yourself. We work on your difficulties in making decisions and your inability thus far to make bold choices in life and to follow through and trust yourself completely to do so.

The irony for some people is that the very thing that they want the coaching for (an indecisive, half-hearted life) is what’s keeping them from deciding whether to get coaching.

When you’re ready, reach out @ karen.laidlaw.theONEthing@outlook.com. Meanwhile, enjoy the blog!