Good morning…
“I said to my soul, be still, and wait . . . So the darkness shall be the light, and the stillness the dancing.” This T.S. Eliot quote begins our new book for the semester, When The Heart Waits by Sue Monk Kidd.
“What does this quote mean?” we wondered aloud as a class. Now I ask you as a reader, “What does this quote mean to you, right now?”
Before light dawns and dancing bursts forth, our soul . . . waits . . . expectantly in dark stillness. One of us said, “Waiting seems to be an essential element in the transformational process. A period of waiting existing between darkness and light. A period of waiting existing between stillness and dancing.”
Then we read the book’s Preface and surround sound set in.
“I’ve grappled with the sacred questions of life, with the journey and the mystery of the human soul as it grows spiritually, moving through passages most have forgotten exist,” Sue Monk Kidd writes. “You’ll find me talk a lot about waiting, for in many ways waiting is the missing link in the transformation process. I’m not referring to waiting as we’re accustomed to it, but waiting as the passionate and contemplative crucible in which new life and spiritual wholeness can be birthed.”
I pray to God—my life a prayer— and wait for what he’ll say and do. My life’s on the line before God, my Lord, waiting and watching till morning, waiting and watching till morning (Psalm 130:5-6, MSG).
…Sue…
