II Peter 3:8-15a

In the Dr. Seuss book Oh the places You'll Go, there is this excerpt about waiting:

The Waiting Place...for people just waiting.

Waiting for a train to go or a bus to come,

or a plane to go or the mail to come,

or the rain to go or the phone to ring,

of the snow to snow

or waiting around for a Yes or No

or waiting for their hair to grow...

Everyone is just waiting.

    Sometimes Advent feels like that.  Waiting for what is to come, preparing for what might be, and in the midst of all that anticipation, maybe even forgetting the true reason for this season of waiting. So, while we are "hastening the coming of the day" as II Peter suggests, let us use this time for some spiritual formation by actively waiting. May our anticipation spur us to wait with new yes and heart alert to our surrounding-- by finding ways to be agents of change and hospitality in our community and to the stranger whom we will surely encounter in the living of these waiting days.

    We wait for you, Emmanuel.  And we wait upon you in our service to one another.  Make our waiting time worthy time.  use it to form us into the heralds of the new creation.  And let us know you are near as we wait.  Amen.

Jackie Saxon (MDiv'00)

Admissions Counselors;

Austin Seminary Association Board