How much of our lives, how much of our energies are spent in waiting? We wait in line at the grocery store, at the bank, at the Post Office. We wait on the phone for someone to take our call. We wait on line for the computer to start up, for the program to load, for the video to download.
We wait for a commercial to end, for the mail to come, for a pot to boil.
Some wait for a child to come home from school or a spouse to come home from work. Some wait for a call back from an interview. Some wait for the results of a pregnancy test, of a cancer biopsy, of an HIV test.
Some wait for labor to begin or for the doctor to emerge from surgery. Others wait for a son or father or husband to return from military duty.
Some wait for the rain that will end the drought. Others wait for the waters to recede from their homes and farms.
Many wait for the violence to end. Others wait to return home from exile.
Some wait for death to come.
Who do we wait with? For what do we wait?
What does it mean to wait for the One who will bring about the Kingdom of God, who will bring an end to all waiting, who will bring all to completion?
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