“…but the people became impatient on the way.”
Numbers 21:4
Some of us are weary of the wandering by now. While we’re beyond the halfway point in our lenten journey, we’re ready for spring, and a season of joy. We want to experience change realized.
The season of Lent leads us through a faux wilderness of sorts because we know when this will be over; we have certainty. We can countdown to Easter. The endpoint is fixed.
For most of us, our personal wilderness experiences are not as tidy and hopeful. Often times our wandering begins unchosen– disappointment, fear, loss– when the unexpected or unwelcome upsets our rhythms we find ourselves adrift.
And, we are not unlike the Israelites who got impatient with God’s rescue plan. Having been freed from slavery in dramatic fashion (parting of the Red Sea) the miracles of the past are quickly forgotten and the complaining begins (or resumes).
This unattributed quote appears in many places, but perhaps it comes from the wilderness experience. How quickly we move from one challenge to the next, often forgetting the miracle that led us to this new place.
What miracles have gotten you to where you are now? What are you longing for? What can you be thankful for?
God, in the long days of wandering and waiting, transform our impatience to gratitude. Amen.
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