Red Hot Ruby's

This piece defied my usual inspirational flow.  I named and renamed it numerous times, but until the word “wait” came to me, no other name seemed to fit the energy that I felt when I see it. In fact, this message continues to work its magic as I type, as I really wanted to post about peace today.

Nope. Wait.

My dad is a Baptist minister and one of the important things he taught me was that God always answers prayers in one of three ways; yes, no, and wait.  A bit of a bible verse I treasure is “she also helps who sits and waits”. 

Waiting is helping.

Waiting is valuable. 

Waiting is hard.

Did you know that the seeds of the baobab tree take three years to germinate?  I feel like a baobab seed sometimes, but I imagine that those patient seeds do not tell themselves that they want to grow faster, like the story I tell myself.  As a woman in long term recovery from the disease of addiction, I struggle with wanting things right now.  Hence, of course, my lesson is learning to wait.  

But not just the unglamorous sit-on-my-hands-and-grumble kind of waiting, but instead, waiting beautifully.  I want to wait with style. 

I know that when I wait . . . I am helping.

I know that when I wait . . . I am growing.

Thank you for reading.

Please reach out with any comments or questions. I would love to hear from you.

At your own time of course.

Art and words by Ruby Karen A. Wilcox, CRP, AGS, CADC

Artist and Life Coach

Taking new clients in January 2026

redhotrubys@outlook.com

This original is for sale here: WAIT OOAK Original Watercolor Painting – Etsy