Day 5
wait
But, what do you wait for?
Are you waiting to get back to important work? To put some money back in your account? Are you waiting for the restaurants and bars to re-open so you can sit once again among strangers and feel the waves of their talk wash over you?
Do you wait to be with family, to see your friends? Are you waiting for the fear to subside as the normalcy returns? Are you waiting to travel, to get away or get home?
Look just beyond your four walls. Do you feel the calm? The ground on which we rest also must rest. Perhaps she has been waiting for this moment. Perhaps while we wait, there are things that awaken and are renewed.
Let her rest. Let the sky clear and the rivers fill with the winter runoff. Let the birds move unhindered to settle in their summer homes. Let the water run from the faucet through your fingers and wait to be reminded of the last time you saw water that was not coming out of a pipe.
Lick the salt from your lover’s skin, hold the baby, moon gaze. Remember when you were a child and the moon looked back; followed the car home?
Are you still waiting?
Here’s a thought: All of those millions of us who do not have enough shelter, food, companionship or peace; they have been waiting for ages, and it is foolish to forget that we have been waiting with them.
Until this beautiful planet and all who live with her have what they need—waiting will be our fate.
So, take this moment, this rare moment in which we are all forced to feel what is at the heart of our shared experience. Wonder at it. Ask yourself what we are waiting for. And tomorrow, when you wake up on Easter morning, know that this does not have to be our fate. For every time you answer your longing for wholeness, you answer for us all.
