Waiting rooms are never designed to be a destination, but a space of transition. Maybe that is why we never quite feel at home in them. In the book of Ezra, we encounter the Israelites in exile. They had been waiting to return home, and now the chance had come. Journeying to Israel was a group of people who had come to restore and rebuild. One of those listed among them was Zerubbabel. Listed in the lineage of Jesus,
