"Waiting for God"
Sacred Longing
in the work of Simone Weil
By Norma Nakai Burton, M.Div.
“At the center of the human heart is the longing
for an absolute good, a longing which is always
there and is never appeased by any object in this world.”
- Simone Weil
"Wait upon God
and you shall renew your strength,
you shall mount up on wings of eagles,
you shall run and not be weary,
you shall walk and not faint."
- Book of Isaiah
Simone Weil (1909-1943) was a remarkable saint of the modern era. After being raised in a Jewish middle class family and graduating from the finest schools, she went to work in the inner city as a blue-collar factory worker. Besides her amazing solidarity with the working class, it is Weil's profound writings
(such as her book "Waiting for God") that have
established her legacy.
Contemporary Albert Camus called her "the only great spirit of our time." T.S. Eliot wrote in his forward to one of her books: "We must expose ourselves to the personality of a woman of genius, of a kind of genius akin to that of a saint."
During this ADVENT season, with the help of Simone Weil,
we will explore our sacred longing for spiritual at-home-ness.
Music by Heather Hutton and Richard Williams
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