There are many things about your life which I do not know. But one thing I do know: you are living in an interim. And so am I. We are in time-in-between; we are between what has happened and what will happen. We know a great deal about the former and very little about the latter. What has been is past, and we are moving away from it, going on to what is to be. How we make this journey is very important, the attitudes with which we travel, the guiding stars we follow. So I want to speak with you about The Art of Living Until. This is what we are all doing - we are living until, until ... something.

On one occasion Jesus was telling his disciples about some spectacular events which were yet to come, and they asked him, "When shall these things be?" (Matthew 24:3). In his response Jesus told t…