I haven't been active on Reckonings for over three months: a kind of mini-sabbatical.
No surprise, then, as I feel the stirrings of return to Reckonings, that I've been thinking about waiting and patience, how our Get-and-Go culture leads us to experience waiting as tedious at best, time wasted, lost rather than well used, absence rather than presence. Yesterday an elderly friend and I were musing about ways to understand—refocus through another lens—his increasing and often unsettling loss of memory—as part of the normal paring and slowing down and of aging. "God's way," he said, "of gently, sometimes not so gently, nudging me into Now."