Are we waiting? Perhaps for physical healing, perhaps for time to ease the touch of grief, or perhaps for a certain occurrence, considered beneficial, to take place at a certain time, as the man at the pool of Bethesda waited "for the moving of the water" (John 5:3)?
Time is not a healing agent. To dull the edge of memory, to ease the touch of pain through drugs, hypnotism, or the passing of time, is not healing after the way of God's appointing. There is no delay in God's goodness. All of good is everywhere, ever with us, ever present and available.
Where shall we go to find more of God's goodness than is here? If our experience seems to belie the fact of God's ever-available goodness, then let us look within; let us till the soil of human consciousness, spiritualizing our thought until the springlike beauty of God's grace appears to us. The bleakness of our winter of waiting will then be ended, and God's ever-present goodness will be seen in full flower. Truth understood is always fruitful and effective.
