I recently attended a dinner gathering, and was seated next to this wonderful, wise woman who’s been a professional nurse midwife for 20 years. 

She has delivered thousands of children. 

In fact, she teaches the doctors of her medical system how to deliver babies.

There’s something she said that night that has been with me ever since. 

She said the young docs show up very purehearted…and very eager to Get. The baby. OUT. 

But in their eagerness, they often think they need to do something to make the process move along. Sometimes they worry and wonder (prematurely, in her sage opinion) whether something’s wrong when things seem to be lagging. 

When this happens, she said, she reminds the physicians that billions of humans have been born. And most of them got out without any medical intervention at all. 

Human bodies — the mama ones and the baby ones — have an inbuilt intelligence that knows how to get babies out. 

She said she regularly reminds them that “patience is an intervention.”

Patience is a strategy.

In other words, sometimes just waiting and letting things play out… letting the chips fall where they may… trusting that it all works out in the end…is the only wise thing to do.

Sometimes patience is the most intelligent way to participate in creation. 

By the same token, sometimes rushing things to happen before they’re ripe is the road to ruin (or at least the road to unsatisfying results). 

Here’s an example: I have this beautiful tree outside my window. It’s an olive tree. But people often ask me what kind of tree it is. 

That’s because the olives that grow on that tree do not look like olives.

They look like little hard rocks. 

The olives you eat sit in brine for months before you eat them. 

Premature consumption would be somewhere between unsavory and a wildly tooth-breaking experience.

This is a word for someone reading this or hearing the sound of my voice today.

You know who you are.

Stand down.

Don’t rush it. 

Don’t force it.

Don’t judge your progress.

Don’t rush yourself or your life. 

Don’t try to get in there and start fixing. 

Sometimes what the situation needs is time to play out.

Let Divine Order and Timing do what they do.

Let the chips fall where they may.

Let the olives ripen and the brine sink in and soften them.

And if this felt like it was a message I wrote and sent directly to your heart… may your patience turn out to be an intelligent intervention that takes you further than your hard effort, force and rushing ever could have.

So let it be. 

Head up + heart out,

Tara-Nicholle Kirke, MA, Esq.
The Inner Critic Coach™️
Founder + CEO of SoulTour

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