Tag: waiting
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Advent at the Equator
As much as I’m looking forward to spending my holidays in North America, I’m kinda loving this tropical climate at the equator. The daily warm sun, the ever growing plants and trees, abundance of fruit all year round, and even the torrential rains which are now more often than in June. Here is no bleak midwinter—it is now the rainy season—and although we can still light candles in the night, the amount of daylight is nearly the same as it was 6 months ago.
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L I M I N A L__S P A C E
LIMINAL SPACE clickety-clack, clickety-clack this train ride at the threshold has no time of arrival and no certainty of where it will stop. clickety-clack, clickety-clack let the rhythm of the rails take hold. stare out the window hour after hour and think: oh, the places you’ll go! welcome to the liminal space, an expansive neither […]
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Lent and Blessing the Waiting
Since my return from the orientation in Toronto in January, I have been staying with my parents in southeastern Washington state. Recently on a trail, I ran among the dry sagebrush steppe and contemplated the desert and my lenten journey. How do I form and hold onto a spiritual practice for lent as I continue […]
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I’m still waiting, so why not run a half marathon?
I am still waiting. I can’t say that the last three weeks have been easy. Some days I have felt very much like my previous post, taking delight in the blessings; there have been other days, however, when I have felt most anxious. Someday I may unpack this time of waiting, and find important lessons. […]
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Delicious Ambiguity
I wait for the Lord, my soul waits, and in his word I hope; my soul waits for the Lord more than those who watch for the morning, more than those who watch for the morning. (Psalm 130:5,6) Waiting. Each morning I arise and wonder, is this the day all loose ends will finally fall […]
Megs the Wanderer 