The Waiting Season

Life would be so much easier if everything went according to our plan…..

But every now and then we find the pause button being hit on these so-called plans- what I like to call “the waiting season”.

I think what frightens us about these seasons is that up until that point we've done everything we can, and now all there’s left to do is simply… wait.

The fear that accompanies a waiting season is tied up in uncertainty of the future. Will I get the score I want? Will I get accepted? Did I do everything I could’ve?

We have to accept that waiting seasons are not a punishment. Nor are they a sign that our dreams are out of reach. They’re simply a “not yet”.

Moment of transparency: I did not do well on my first MCAT :( . I was devastated, but looking back at it, there were experiences I needed to go through and lessons that needed to be learned that I would not have appreciated had I done well on the first exam.

For the next two months, I worked day and night preparing for the second go-around. And I spent those two months worried that the work I was pouring into preparing for the next test would go in vain.

That’s when the opportunity to practice faith came in. Faith doesn’t come to us in those moments when everything is "peaches and cream". It comes in the moments when all you have to lean on is trusting that your steps are ordered.

With this new expectation of what was to come from my waiting season, not only did I move through it… I got the score I wanted! Now as I matriculate through med school- and even life- I’m constantly reminded about the lessons those two months taught me: give yourself grace, listen to what your body needs, and trust that your hard work will pay off.

Your win is coming! The waiting season you’re in now is proof of that.

Remember: all great things take time.