WAITING AND FAITH
Faith is a way of waiting — never quite knowing, never quite hearing or seeing, because in the darkness we are all but a little lost. There is doubt hard on the heels of every belief, fear hard on the heels of every hope, and many holy things lie in ruins because the world has ruined them and we have ruined them. But faith waits even so, delivered at least from that final despair which gives up waiting altogether because it sees nothing left worth waiting for. Faith waits– for the opening of a door, the sound of footsteps in the hall, that beloved voice, delayed, so long that there are times when you all but give up hope of hearing it. From Frederick Buechner’s, A Room Called Remember, Harper & Row, 1984, “Delay,” p. 130.
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