Waiting

In Advent we wait. We wait for the Feast of Christmas, a 3-4 Sunday festival known reminiscently, musically as "The Twelve Days of Christmas. The feast ends on Epiphany or in some customs Three Kings Day.

We Americans are used to waiting. Not liking it, but doing it with varying degrees of grace. We wait in traffic, in checkout lines, for appointments, for test results, for email replies, for letters of acceptance or employment, for gifts to arrive, for babies to arrive, for cookies to come out of the oven. Some who want to wait with us in all those lines for all those things wait now in immigration detention centers.

I think I'll reflect on waiting today. More later.