In such a context of these pagan times, in which silence is banished and lost, waiting is not easy, because it requires an attitude of healthy passivity, the courage to slow down, to not let ourselves be overwhelmed by activities, to let space within us for the action of God, as Christian mysticism teaches.
Let us take care, then, that the spirit of the world does not enter into our religious communities, into the life of the Church and into the path of each one of us, otherwise we will not bear fruit.
The Christian life and the apostolic mission need waiting, matured in prayer and daily fidelity, to free us from the myth of efficiency, the obsession with productivity and, above all, the pretension of locking God in our hearts. categories, because He always comes in an unpredictable way, in times that are not ours and in ways that are not what we expect.
As the French mystic and philosopher Simone Weil states, we are the wife who waits at night for the arrival of the husband, and “the role of the future wife is to wait (…). Desiring God and renouncing everything else is the only thing that saves her »(S. WEIL, Waiting for God, Madrid 1996, 125-126).