Genesis 8:6-13, 20-22 / Mark 8:22-26
One of the things that we don't really like to do is to wait.
Whether be it waiting for the bus, or the train, or the taxi or waiting for someone.
More so, waiting can be quite torturous when we are in a situation of frustration or in distress.
Or like being in the ark with Noah and the animals.
Certainly it was not a star-cruise or a luxury-liner.
But Noah had to wait : 40 days of rain, another 7 days for the water to subside, and then another 7 days for the surface of the earth to dry up.
The lesson is this - everything happens in God's time. We have to trust in God and wait.
Even for the blind man in today's gospel passage, he too had to wait before his sight was fully restored.
It is only natural to ask God to save us when we are in some kind of trouble or distress.
And after we had said our prayers, let us adopt this biblical spirituality of waiting; waiting in God's time and keeping faith in Him.
Like the psalms often repeats : I put my hope in the Lord, I shall wait for Him (Ps 130:5)