Impatience and Idolatry
How waiting is the way beyond idols - The Word in the Wild, Proper 23, Year A
This morning three birds arrived, fresh from boreal summers, ready to winter in Arkansas. The first came before first light, just as the dawn chorus was beginning. Seeeet—I recognized it immediately, the long note of a White-throated Sparrow, perched in my elderberry tree. That seeeet will be a backg…