A blessing for those waiting on news after an interview or application
- patriciahiggins1
- Apr 15
- 1 min read
Updated: Apr 20
May you find a certain solidarity with others who are waiting
May you be gentle on yourself as you prepare to leave the thin comfort of not knowing for sure you haven’t been accepted
To finding out whether you or not you have been.
May you be blessed by a sense that whatever happens
The stretch you made to be considered was not wasted
If only, because the fact you tried, will in time be its own comfort.
May you, whenever your time might come to be the maker of decisions that others will wait on,
Remember what matters most to you now as one who waits.
If the decision doesn’t go as you would wish May you find the strength and compassion to love fiercely the disappointed part of you And to face down firmly the flurry of negative voices that may stir up And should the decision go as you would wish May you give thanks where it’s due,
Find time to celebrate what’s been achieved
and be open to how this new step may bless yourself and others.
Photo by Ümit Bulut on Unsplash
The waiting period after an interview is a uniquely cruel kind of silence because your mind fills every hour with scenarios that swing between celebration and rejection with no middle ground. A blessing for that moment is something most people do not think to offer but it is exactly the kind of support that actually helps when practical advice has run out. Went through that same anxious waiting recently after completing training on-site and applying for a position that required the certification, and reading something like this during those uncertain days would have genuinely steadied my nerves. Sometimes the most meaningful support is not guidance it is just someone acknowledging how hard the wait feels.