Grateful while waiting...

The 2010 Lenten journey is drawing to a close.
While we wait, consider this from Madeleine L'Engle:

"If I can learn a little how to die,
To die while body, mind, and spirit still
Move in their triune dance of unity,
To die while living, dying I'll fulfill
The purpose of the finite in infinity,
If God will help me learn to die today,
Today in time I'll touch eternity,
And dying, thus will live within God's Way.
If I can free myself from self's iron bands,
Freed from myself not by myself, but through
Christ's presence in this simple room, in hands
Outstretched in holy friendship, then, born new
In death, truth will outlive the deathly lie,
And in love's light I will be taught to die."

And this, from Paul:

"We were indeed buried with him through baptism into death, so that, just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, we too might live in newness of life." (Romans 6:4)

While I wait, I'm grateful for the learning, growing into greater freedom, holy friendship (Christ in me, the hope of glory) and the promise of resurrection.
Stay tuned...