#39wait

The two men
on the road to Emmaus
had forgotten how to wait,
they had moved on too quickly
to despair;
‘We had hoped that he
was the one who was going to
redeem Israel’, they said.
They had already given up hope,
had tossed it by the wayside,
in favour of despair;
perhaps it comes quicker,
is easier to hold.
But there is strength in waiting,
in hearing a promise
and planting it deep in your heart.
There were those who lived like this,
staring down old age and infertility
with God’s promise,
believing for something
as wild and outlandish as this:
a child from a lifeless womb,
a screaming mass of bone and flesh,
but it came, it came,
and like Abraham,
we must learn to live our lives this way;
waiting for the third day,
holding on to hope,
and the words that have been spoken,
no matter how barren or broken
things seem:
the story isn’t over yet,
though it tarries, wait for it.