Lo, How a Rose E’er Blooming
Traditional German carol, pub.1599
Personal Photo December 13, 2020
Asking hard questions seems to characterize the advent season this year.
“Are we there yet?” Is a common memory from the backseats of family trips. It painfully recurs in the prayers of advent and now within the tragic context of a pandemic. We desperately look for times and events that signal an “end”! The vaccine distribution is one answer to those prayers but the “end of the pandemic” is still remote for most of us.
There is another related advent question, “Will we receive the gift?” This question now finds its parallel in the issue of vaccination acceptance. The underlying issue to any acceptance is “trust” in others and and their work. Even those on the “science side” of this question know about the uncertainty of results.
So during this time of prolonged waiting and questioning in this world, I find again that healing is not an event. It is not the “hard stop” of vaccination, but a process of living with uncertainty in all its forms. It comes in small bits of understanding and acceptance. It even comes in the midst of a winter of grieving.
At this time of advent may we all remember and receive the blessings that surprise us like a rose blooming in the middle of winter.
Marvin
References
Lo, How a Rose E’er Blooming Carol
https://library.timelesstruths.org/music/Lo_How_a_Rose_Eer_Blooming/
Hage, M. L. (2012). Awaiting “Good News”.
http://healingagents.blogspot.co.ke/2012/12/awaiting-good-news.html
Hage, M. L. (2018). Living the Dream.
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