Waiting…
April 3, 2010, 10:50 am
Posted by Lisa Fullam
“Waiting for the wind.” (From The works of Living World @ STARNET ZONE (Mashiko, 2006))
A friend of mine is on retreat for triduum, and sends a terse note that she is “Waiting…” We wait in many ways: like at the dentist’s office, or there’s waiting like at the DMV, waiting like a kid at Xmas, waiting like a cat at a mouse hole, or waiting like how? None of my images here is apt–to what does one liken the waiting of Holy Saturday? Waiting like for the sound of a lover’s keys at the front door? Or….
on April 3rd, 2010 at 11:04 am
Waiting…
…like a pregnant woman on her due date?
…like a dog behind the door eagerly expecting his master to come home any time?
…like a sick or injured person who can’t sleep because of pain or physical discomfort, and is waiting for the sun to come up and for the long night hours to end?
on April 3rd, 2010 at 11:33 am
Waiting…
to hear the Good News, “He Is Risen.”
on April 3rd, 2010 at 2:52 pm
Waiting…
with Him in the tomb
for the Spirit to breathe a new life in Him
— and in me
till His new dawn and mine and yours
releases us all
from old schemas
into a new paradigm
on April 3rd, 2010 at 3:19 pm
Claire B: Yes, waiting for the Spirit to breathe something fresh into my jaded outlook, to blow away some of the cobwebs, to part the curtain enough to see whether there’s light behind it, to hear again the litany of saints, our friends in heaven, who, I always imagine, speak our own names as we speak theirs.
Lisa, what a great photo for this post.
on April 5th, 2010 at 6:00 pm
Waiting, watching
with bated breath
for the sun to rise again
in the dawn of a new day
for the dew in the cool morning
for release from longing
for…..MARANATHA
Happy Easter to all!