Wait

 

Nothing changes, everything stays the same
Except -- 


Instead of flights of a thousand miles, new movement down familiar streets
Desperate to see something different
Any progress, any end to the monotony of sameness

An idea takes root

A familiar native tree
Searching for a spring of its’ own 
A picture a day to mark the passing of time
I wouldn't believe it if I couldn't see it for myself  

  • The past and the present side by side 

Bare limbs giving way to full green leaves
Nearly imperceptible day by day - but - inarguable in the end

Confronted with the evidence of what was true all along
Nothing changes until everything does

Praise Him 

—Kristen Vick, 2021

blessed be the drifting
unmoored between
familiar past and unknown future

the job that ended suddenly
and the one yet to be discovered

well-worn routines
and startling new shores

—Rev. Kate Buckley


A few days ago Vicky and I noticed a house finch couple busily building a nest under the eaves of our front porch. From time to time this has happened, only to have them abandon the nest because of the coming and going of our busy family. With our sons off at school, we decided this time to enter and leave through the garage, and the finches stayed. We have become attached to them, watching as she sits, with incredible patience, on the nest, and as he returns again and again to feed her seed from our backyard feeders. We worried last night about the unseasonably cold temperatures and at first light this morning I looked out the widow to find her sitting calmly on the nest. I am sure it was a harrowing night, in both senses of the term. We will await with anticipation the new life that is to come, borne of their steadfast, abiding patience and care. Like the two Marys, who abided, who sat patiently opposite the tomb, and like all those gathered here today, and like our house finch couple, we live into the uncertain ambiguity of Holy Saturday time, hopeful, expectant, and yet fully present here, and now, a community gathered in faith, waiting for the resurrection to come. Amen.

—Rev. Dr. Bill Harkins