"Let time do its tender work."

For most of us, time is the choke chain that binds everyday living to a schedule. We have forgotten it has another side that in our hungriness for control, we no longer seek. Beyond the frenetic schedules we create, time exists in its truest form as an instrument of growth and healing. To receive these gifts, we must learn when to abandon our lists and accept the invitation to be in the moment and we must also learn to trust the passage of time through our lives. When we give the power of attention to ourselves, to the people we love, to our struggles and longings, we relinquish our fear of always wanting to know what comes next. We learn to wait and see. When we open ourselves to the mystery that some parts of living must have the slow, gradual passage of time to manifest and to change and heal, we transform living from the daily grind to a grace filled, purposeful, intended experience full of possibility.