Opening Remarks for Issue 29: On Waiting Well by Sarah Cla

Courtney Ellis is an author, speaker, and mother of three. Her books include Looking Up: A Birder's Guide to Hope Through Grief, Present: The Gift of Being All In, Right Where You Are, and several others.

Our helplessness in the face of implacable Nature can teach us the limits of our own control, allowing us to rest in the peace of a mercy beyond our understanding. By Marie Glancy O’Shea

The necessity of waiting in research teaches a synthetic biologist about her field and her faith. By Heidi Klumpe

The epidemic of despair in the university points to the basic human need for something more than the merely physical—something just out of sight and beyond our reach. By Colm O’Shea

Czeslaw Milosz’s long wait in exile ended in a triumphant homecoming—but not before cleaving his life, and self, in two. By Atar Hadari

Bob Dylan’s music wrestled with good and evil throughout his career, but his 1967 track “All Along the Watchtower” carries a heavy warning for those who wait passively in the face of coming disaster. By Toby Jaffe