Have you ever been in line and you can see that at any minute you will be next? But “next” seemingly is taking forever to come…but the reason you continue on line is the comfort of knowing that you are next!
Or what about when you have made a very important phone call and you get an automatic response that says “your call is very important to us, please hold and the next available agent will be right with you.” Then you listen to the que and it tells you, you are the 3rd caller, then 2nd caller and then you are the “next” caller. And to you that translates as to now, but it isn’t really now it is only next.
Our lives are very similar to the experience of needing to make very important phone calls. We have to make very important decisions about our relationships, finances, residences, livelihoods, occupations, career paths, our life’s goals, our dreams and our law – abiding contributions to society. These decisions reveal who we are and not what we do.
So, I wait on hold with the expectation that who I am has put me in perfect position to be next. Next for what, to share what I am holding for. I’m realizing, the part of my life that parallels to “your call is very important to us please hold” is not only about me holding, but rather my call being heard by those who are the “us”. And who are the us? It is the world! The world needs us to hold, because we are the next In line to deliver what “it” needs. If we don’t wait, who will give what only we can…no one!
So, if you understand who you are and you realize that you have many important things to deliver to this world…. I encourage you to hold on, because your call is very important to us and you are next.
In this new year, don’t be too anxious for things to be so different so fast. It’s coming, because it’s next, but not necessarily right now. Happy New Year 2025