Wait for the Lord, whose day is near.  Wait for the Lord, be strong take heart.       –from the music of the Taize community  Two stretches of the year Christians are called on to practice waiting—we wait for the Incarnation in our Advent stretch, and we wait for the Resurrection in our Lenten stretch.  Through the ages the institutional church has suggested lots of ways for us to signal and really feel this waiting.  Believers may be invited to worship more, pray more, give something up, have a daily scriptural reading and prayer practice, eat differently, or add and subtract elements… Read the full post