Monday, November 5, 2007
Why waiting?
Why a blog about waiting? Does waiting really have a place in our day and time? For me the answer is a resounding yes. Waiting is a part of life but more than that is the privileged stance of the people of God. To wait on the Lord is to recognize that we are not in control that there is someone greater and wiser in charge. Waiting is not always passive. Sometimes the call to wait is a call to deep, prayerful action. This blog is my invitation to you to join the great community of those who have waited, who are waiting and who will wait. Together let's ponder how to wait as individuals, as families as a community of faith.
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Thanks to my friend Chris I have the correct name and the full quote I mentioned in my post today.
Emmanuel Celestin Cardinal Suhard, Archbishop of Paris around 1940. It is from a book called “Priests Among Men”.
“So it is fitting for priests to become witnesses again, not so much to convince people as to serve as a sign to them. It has been truly said, that to be a witness does not consist in engaging in propaganda, nor even in stirring people up, but in being a living mystery. It means to live in such a way that one’s life would not make sense if God did not exist. To be a witness is much less a matter of external changes in one’s way of living than of firm determination to establish a real community of destiny with the disinherited masses.”
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