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Lenten Journey Through the Sorrows of Mary: Ever-patient in her yearning

March 16
Ever-patient in her yearning
Though her tear-filled eyes were burning,
Mary gazed upon her Son.
For Reflection:
In his writing, The Spirituality of Waiting, Henri Nouwen gives five characteristics of waiting. He tells us waiting is a movement. “People who wait have received a promise that allows them to wait. … They have received something that is a work in them, like a seed that has started to grow… So waiting is never a movement from nothing to something. It is always a movement from something to something more.”
How is this truth depicted in the stanza above? Consider Mary’s gaze. What might have been transpiring in her heart as Mary looked upon her Son and as He gazed upon her? What promise(s) had she received and what might be the “something more” still yet to come?
  

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