Lessons in Waiting

The Word in the Wild I Proper 27, Year A

Joshua 24:1-3a, 14-25
1 Thessalonians 4:13-18
Matthew 25:1-13

From the final scene of Nostalghia by Andrei Tarkovsky

The time between anticipation and arrival is the hardest. There is the longing, the waiting, the not knowing when, exactly, it will come, whatever it is. I know this feeling best from the births of my two daughters. In each case we had a d…