Article May 27, 1961 Issue

"Teach me to wait"

VERONICA VIOLET PARK

"Our waiting times should be times of
growing Godward"

In the nineteenth chapter of I Kings we read that as Elijah, in deep discouragement, "lay and slept under a juniper tree, behold, then an angel touched him, and said unto him, Arise and eat." Do we, like Elijah, sometimes wait under a tree of discouragement, of self-condemnation, or of impatience? To wait impatiently or in a state of depression is far from the hopeful, joyous waiting that brings awakening and liberation to human consciousness.

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