Carrying a question around.

I really appreciate what Lourdes Callen writes in her chapter in ‘Good Question!’. Some questions aren’t ready for an instant answer and they need to be carried with you for a while. For example, when you are making a decision an have choices there might be a choice that seems just right and then another seems better after a few days of ponering, or at least ’sleeping on it’. And with a bit of patience sometimes a quite different answer comes along, because you were holding the question and in a sense waiting for an answer. The thinking that you do to create or somehow come up with the right question - and no question can be a good question unless it’s the right question for a particular time and situation - is part of it, and the other part is holding the question over time, returning to it and finding different ways to work with it until there’s the sense that ‘Yes, this is the right way forward.’ And when you really sense that in heart, mind and will then it’s the right time to take action and move forward.