An enigma I’ve been living in, well, maybe my whole life is this feeling of urgency for the next thing while being in what seems like a never-ending state of waiting. At the same moment, time has equally passed so quickly that it’s beyond me to grasp where it has gone. I heard once that life is like a roll of toilet paper. The closer you get to the end, the faster it goes. Is that true? Time doesn’t actually go faster one day to the next. It always just is, a constant since the beginning of time.
This season has felt extra expeditious in so many ways with our kids changing at rapid speeds, the load of schoolwork, serving, work-work, relationships, heartaches, joys. While at the same time, we have been in a period of waiting on the next steps for our finding home journey. We are on a clear path, but each step is dependent on the one before it, leaving much time to pray between each one.
When looking for a word for today, I was thinking of time flying by and looked up speedy, which led me to expeditious. It stems from the latin root expedire which means “to set free” or “to make ready”. Originally in english it referred to journeys, specifically by a group of people for a specific purpose. Think: expedition. Also it was originally used to describe efficient promptness. Isn’t the study of words so rich? I love that the latin root of expeditious is to set free or make ready. That is exactly what the ebb and flow of working hard and time flying by mixed with long seasons of waiting lead towards.
In one of the teaching moments I had with the kids today, and many days as of late, we were talking about how life is often a journey filled with things that we aren’t particularly thrilled to endure or do. Much of life is learning how to find the beauty in the mundane, the responsibility, and the wonder behind it all. The time flying by is making us ready for what’s to come. The hard work is preparing us for the future that we wait for. In my belief, our future home in heaven. The more we lean into the wonder and glory of it all, the more free we become. We can rest in this expeditious life, each day moving onto the next with great efficiency in the purposes the Lord has for each one.