New life and new possibility can be jolting, even when it’s exactly what we’ve been hoping for. Have you ever had moments like that? I think of relationships that are reconciling, difficult situations that suddenly resolve, or new opportunities finally appearing on the horizon after we’ve been tilling the soil for so long.
This has been on my mind as spring unfolds, and as I consider new questions and new experiences emerging in my own life.
I had never thought about this before, but Easter — not just a day, but a season — isn’t only an arrival of new life, but also a period of waiting. That’s what happens in the Easter story. People are jolted by life, and then they wait for fifty days before a transformative experience at Pentecost. In my own spiritual tradition, I’ve often thought of Advent or Lent as seasons of waiting. But Easter is as well.
So if you feel like you’re on the precipice of something important — a new possibility, a reorientation, a redeeming moment, or a consequential change — but you’re not fully there yet, it’s wise to wait with intention and let it continue to unfold, trusting that it’s finding its way to fullness.
You don’t have to rush what is still becoming.
Smuggling Grace 