Waiting, waiting, waiting

Here in Honduras we wait a lot. Some of this is due to the cultural bias toward waiting for everyone before beginning something – a way to make sure all are included.

But some waiting is due to the poverty. People wait in long lines in banks because there are not enough tellers. You wait for a store to contact a distant city to get a replacement part for your car or you have to go to another store to find it.

Some waiting is due to inefficiency. You wait in line to have one person look at your documentation for residency, then wait for another person to take your fingerprints, another person to take your photo, and then wait for someone to process it. (Now the process is a little more streamlined. I got my card in 20 minutes flat – though it was four months after I began the process. But I know people who’ve had to wait much more.)

But there seems to have arisen another cause for waiting – waiting for a solution to the current crisis. One must not free from blame those who would keep their power intact. So congress won’t come into session to consider the proposal from the agreement that Micheletti and Zelaya signed last Friday about the possible reinstatement of Zelaya as a limited president for a few months. They say they are waiting for the Supreme Court’s decision. But, as I understand it, Congress could call a special session as could Micheletti.

There is so much delay in this matter that it seems as if some just want to avoid change.

In the meantime, the toll has been great - not so much in people killed (though there have been some) but much more in the denial of civil rights and in what the poor have suffered as the economy has worsened.

My question: How long can the people wait for justice and at least an interim solution to this crisis?

When he broke open the fifth seal, I saw underneath the altar the souls of those who had been slaughtered because of the witness they bore to the word of God.
They cried out in a loud voice, "How long will it be, holy and true master, before you sit in judgment and avenge our blood on the inhabitants of the earth?"

Revelation 6:9-10