Waiting

This week has been a rather eventful and interesting week. I had many delightful conversations with old friends, medium friends, and people (who I would now consider friends) whom I literally just met moments before delving into meaningful chatter. But there was one concept, which has been prevailing, which through relay was yet again brought to my attention, the simple yet profound theme of waiting.

We live busy lives, ones within which we scurry from thing to thing and place to place leaving no time for conviction or resolution, no time for growth or maturation. Wanting to be cuddled by the business of our schedules and our egos stroked by the feeling of being needed. But we have not learned to wait.

Imagine sitting in a room with an old vinyl album spinning in the background, a gentile breeze billowing the curtains while you read a beloved book sipping on tea. The sun is just waning gleaming in through the window causing the whole room to dance with the breeze as the tree limbs sway and the songs of birds intertwine with the music in the background. This is the image in my mind when I think of waiting.

When the hustle and bustle of life is slowed to a stop as you wait. But societally we are not wonderful waiters. We want our goodies and we want them now.

But there are some things, some ideas, some studies, which require all your heart and mind which must not be waylaid by the pursuit of a love or the trappings of life, some things which demand all your attention because they directly concern your love for God. These things become paramount in the life of the believer, because a better view of God is what they are being called to.

For it is a calling of, “Further up and further in.” (C.S. Lewis) which we are called, and thus must never be mistaken for the call of constant and steady and most certainly never the call of waning and stopping. Further up and further in to the God who has called us, who judges us, who loves us, who is indeed our King. This is the beauty of putting things on hold and waiting to take them up again.