“I will send my messenger, who will prepare the way before me. Then suddenly the Lord you are seeking will come to His temple; the messenger of the covenant, whom you desire, will come,” says the LORD Almighty. Malachi 3:1
“The divine light always inheres in angelic light, and the angelic light would be irksome and insipid to the soul if God’s light were not enwrapped in it. God wraps and conceals Himself in the angelic light and is only waiting for a chance to creep out and give Himself to the soul.”
Meister Eckhart (c.1260-c.1328) in Sermon 48 in The Complete Mystical Works of Meister Eckhart, Translated and Edited by Maurice O’C. Walshe, Revised with a Foreword by Bernard McGinn (New York: Herder and Herder, 2009) 258.
We can give ourself generously to others because we serve a God who waits “for a chance to creep out and give Himself to the soul.” Let us celebrate His light and love as 2024 ends.
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Waiting explores the topic through the lens of various men and women in Scripture whose stories were shaped by waiting and whose examples inspire our own living, giving, serving, and loving.