Don’t Hold Back
One thing I’ve noticed this year is a disturbingly steady sense of being stuck in time. Waiting for change in order to become unstuck. Waiting for any number of things to happen before taking initiative. I’ve noticed this in so many others that I’ve come to accept it as a condition, albeit a temporary condition, […]
The Blessedness of Waiting – Nov. 9, 2020
“The blessedness of waiting is lost on those who cannot wait, and the fulfillment of promise is never theirs. They want quick answers to the deepest questions of life and miss the value of those times of anxious waiting, seeking with patient uncertainties until the answers come. They lose the moment when the answers are […]
A Long Time Coming
Because of the Inward/Outward publishing process, I am writing this reflection before election day. I don’t know whether there will be results by the time you read this, whether you are filled with rage and grief, or relief and grief — or whether we are all still waiting, suspended in anxiety for God knows how […]
Waiting Is a Window – July 10, 2020
“Waiting is a window opening on many landscapes… It is the experience of recovering balance when catapulted from one’s place. It is the quiet forming of a pattern of recollection in which there is called into focus the fragmentary values from myriad encounters of many kinds in a lifetime of living. It is to watch […]
