Surging Rashly Ahead

Wait:  To be ready or at hand.


Ah, yes.  The alcoholic conundrum: to balance the springing into action part of life with the patient waiting part.  Actually, screw the "patient" part; that's beyond my abilities as a human being.  If I'm able to wait impatiently that's a big improvement over my usual course of action -- the surging ahead rashly technique.  Alcoholics are famous for this.  Male alcoholics are legendary.  We see a problem that needs to be solved and we begin to solve it, even though we don't know what the solution is and we don't have the tools to do the work and our history is to make virtually every problem that needs to be solved much, much worse.  Honestly, we're terrible and understanding what the problem even is.  We conjure problems out of thin air.


"We may not be able to determine which course to take.  Here we ask God for inspiration, an intuitive thought or a decision.   We relax and take it easy.  We don't struggle.  We are often surprised how the right answers come after we have tried this for a while."


If I don't see a course of action right in front of me, right now, I get ants in my pants.  I figure I need to do something, anything.  The reality of the matter is that sometimes the solution is hidden to me for a while.  Sometimes I have to wait for the solution to be revealed.   I can't tell you how many times in my life an answer has been presented to me, custom-made and gift-wrapped, and often an answer that I didn't see coming.  If I had forced the issue earlier, I would have missed that opportunity later on.


Reveal:  To make known (something hidden or kept secret); disclose; divulge.
From the Latin revelare, to draw back the veil.


Surging ahead rashly v quaking in fear.