If you are going through a life transition, whether it be a career change, divorce, loss of parents or significant other, a natural disaster, or physical illness, Sue Monk Kidd's When The Heart Waits will be a helpful book to read.
Sue Monk Kidd, author of the New York Times Bestseller The Secret Life of Bees, writes this book from her own personal life journey and midlife experience. In it, she grapples with the sacred questions of life as she walks through her own transformational process. She talks a lot about waiting. The importance of waiting. And describes waiting as: "the passionate and contemplative crucible in which new life and spiritual wholeness can be birthed."
Transformation is very much part of the inner Samurai journey. It comes when we least expect it, and, seemingly, unasked for. It's as if we are summoned to an inner transformation, to a crossing over from one identity to another. From what to what may be unknown. Though, the call is unmistakable. The calling is to undertake a new passage along our spiritual journey.
We've all gone through these transitions, and often more than one. Carol McClelland, of Transition Dynamics is a transition expert. In her most recent Seasons of Change blog, Carol talks about how much the definition of transition has changed over the past 20 years:
In that era, the word transition brought to mind someone passing away or going through menopause. Furthermore, the definition in the dictionary didn't help. It noted that a transition was a noun...but not a verb. So the dictionary recognized that transitions exist, but there were no words to describe that we moved through transitions or how we did it.
I think Carol makes a great point--until recently, there hasn't been a lot of help available to those going through a transition. Fortunately, now there is, and Sue Monk Kidd's book When The Heart Waits is good place to start and earns a place in the Samurai Reading Room.
What was, or is, your transition experience like?
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