Waiting
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Waiting is an art that our impatient age has forgotten.
Those who do not know how it feels to anxiously struggle
with the deepest questions of life, of their life,
and to patiently look forward with anticipation
until the truth is revealed,
cannot even dream of the splendor of the moment
in which clarity is illuminated for them.
And for those who do not want to win the friendship
and love of another person—
who do not expectantly open up their soul
to the soul of the other person,
until friendship and love come,
until they make their entrance—
for such people the deepest blessing of the one life
of two intertwined souls will remain forever hidden.
Whoever does not know
the austere blessedness of waiting—
that is, of hopefully doing without—
will never experience
the full blessing of fulfillment.
For the greatest,
most profound,
tenderest things in the world,
we must wait.
It happens here not in a storm
but according to the divine laws
of sprouting, growing,
and becoming.
~Dietrich Bonhoeffer
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