You’ve heard the question, and likely asked it yourself.
“Are we there yet?" ask the children, sitting in the back seat
of the car.
“Are we there yet?” asks the dog, waiting for the next
feeding.
“Are we there yet?” asks the writer of the editor, hoping
the last revision nailed it.
The question
reminds me of the late great Yeshayahu Leibowitz,
a professor of chemistry and a religious philosopher. He said to be wary of
anyone who tells you when the messiah will come, for the messiah is always
coming but never there yet.
After the year we’ve
had, I hear this question almost daily. If not from others, then inside my head.
But then I remember
Leibowitz, and answer myself. We are always on the way, never there.
Living in the
moment.
©by Shelagh
Duffett
