Welcome! If you are reading this, you probably know me in real life, but for any of you who don’t: I am a twenty-something who just graduated from college in Texas and moved to Washington, DC for my First Real Job. I’m really into dogs and bluegrass and changing the world. I have a serious diet soda habit. When I grow up, I want to be some kind of mix between Natalie Maines and Leslie Knope.
My faith is also a big part of my life, and I decided to start a blog because, 1) I enjoy writing, and 2) I tend to read a bunch of books and articles by progressive evangelicals that are at once compelling and insufferable. A more apt title for this blog may have been “Emerging Church Stuff I Found Irritating This Week.”
But there is also a lot of interesting, exciting work going on right now. There are a lot of people thinking about how we can create more loving communities, how we can be more radically compassionate, how we can pursue justice more faithfully. And with this little corner of the internet, I hope to contribute to that dialogue.
So why “Waiting for Morning”? The name of this blog comes from Psalm 130:
Out of the depths I cry to you, Lord;
Lord, hear my voice. Let your ears be attentive to my cry for mercy.
If you, Lord, kept a record of sins, Lord, who could stand?
But with you there is forgiveness, so that we can, with reverence, serve you.
I wait for the Lord, my whole being waits, and in his word I put my hope.
I wait for the Lord more than watchmen wait for the morning, more than watchmen wait for the morning.
Israel, put your hope in the Lord, for with the Lord is unfailing love and with him is full redemption.
He himself will redeem Israel from all their sins. (New International Version*)
This psalm is particularly meaningful to me because much of my faith journey has been about waiting—waiting for answers to questions, waiting for my faith to grow, waiting to figure out what to do next with my life.
And, of course, waiting is at the core of Christian belief. Even as we attempt to live faithfully in this world, we have hope in the promise of a new kind of world. We await the coming of a Kingdom, a world that is healed and whole and overflowing with love. We may be living in a dark, broken world right now, but we trust that one day the light of morning will shine through the darkness. So, rather than give in to despair and disillusionment, we keep waiting.
But we are not just passively waiting for Jesus to come down and change things all at once. We are fidgety. We are active, working to share the love of God in this world, even as we yearn and hope for things to be different.
So if you liked the mumbo jumbo I laid down right there, this blog may just be for you! It will be a lot of stuff about faith and justice and God and church-y nonsense, as well as a little about DC life, probably quite a few pictures of my dog, and maybe an occasional clip of me learning to play the mandolin. So get excited for that.
*Yeah, I still read the NIV. What of it?
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