Lazarus time 2

After John 11

It isn’t the timing,

it isn’t the healing,

this Lazarus time

when we wait

when we endure.

The waiting is the plan,

a part of what is

greater, what is

larger, what we do not

understand, It lies

beyond us, this answer,

this knowledge, and we

rage in frustration

at this waiting that

tempts the impulse

within us, not outside us.

Related: Lazarus time.

Painting: The Raising of Lazarus, oil on canvas by Vincent Van Gogh (1890); Van Gugh Museum, Amsterdam.