CHAPTER THREEWait! Then Pick Your Moment

Yesterday is gone.Tomorrow has not yet come.We have only today. Let us begin.

MOTHER TERESA

HAVE YOU EVER waited twenty years to begin something? Have you ever had the patience to wait and pick your moment? Mother Teresa did. Nearly twenty years passed from her joining the Sisters of Loreto in Dublin to her starting the Missionaries of Charity in Calcutta. The road was long, and in more than just miles. Starting a new religious order within the Catholic Church is not an easy task.

Aha!

When a vision emerges from a place deep within you, and it is aligned with your core value system, you can’t get it out of your mind. Suddenly, you are open to a whole new world of possibility, and your brain screams, “Aha!” ...

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