03. When You're Stuck in the Waiting

The Iman Diaries

Perhaps, you are waiting to be healed from depression. You are waiting for anxiety to stop coming for you. Maybe you are waiting for your husband to come home, your wife to return, or your children to be a little more responsible. Maybe you’re waiting for a job interview, a job to open up, or an opportunity to earn an income again. Maybe you are wondering how your next bill will be paid for or waiting to be freed from addiction no one knows but you.

Hindi man po natin maiintindihan bakit po kailangan nating maghintay. Ang totoo po ay may mga bagay na natututunan tayo sa pag-aantay - isa na po dito ang pagtitiwala. Kapag tayo ay naghihintay, binibigyan natin ng pagkakataon ang mga bagay na maganap sa tamang panahon. We give space for things to happen naturally and in due course. Hindo po pre-mature. Hindi po natin minamadali. Wala pong shortcuts. Hindi po instant ang life. Real growth takes time. Toxic po sa buhay ang instant.

Welcome to The Iman Diaries, your sanctuary for exploration and introspection about life, loss, and love, helping you find clarity and perhaps meaning and purpose despite it.

If you go through life seemingly stuck in the middle, in the liminal between where you have been and where you want to be, on the threshold of an unsettled season and in a place where you can’t go back and you can’t stay here - wherever here is for you - but you also don’t know where to go. This podcast is for you.

If you are experiencing loss or have experienced sorrow in all its depth, shapes, and form - whether it is losing your faith, your hope, your dreams, your relationships, your loved one passed away, or you’re about ready to give up on life, listen in.

If you want to love God with all of your heart, soul, mind, and strength, love others, and learn self-compassion in the middle of all these, then you are in the right place.