How important is an anachronym?

I was watching television about why electing a Pope is so important and I kept hearing the commentators talk about an anachronym.   This is one of those words that you have an idea about what it means, yet you can't remember if you have ever used it in a sentence, yourself!  How could you if you weren't sure what it means?    But it means, "something or someone that is not in its correct historical or chronological time."   This was not who Christ was talking about when he said, "Surely, you have come to the Kingdom for such a time as this!"

I don't think the Pope is an anachronism.  Maybe he does not intend, for a holy second, to change some of the pressing issues of the Papacy (in the minds of non-Papacy people) but perhaps the reasons that he was elected on the second day of balloting was that he had attributes that fit the times.   His working along side the poor, his struggle with dealing with a third-world country, his down to earthiness;  those are traits for such a time as this!   Yes, I loved it that he got on the bus with the Cardinals and carried his own baggage.   That is humanity.

But, to me, it seems the world is looking for someone (anyone) who can perform miracles and miracles are everywhere and nowhere.  They just go by different names.  I am going in for cataract surgery on Monday which will take 15 minutes.  That is a miracle of healing that no one would have believed years ago.  I watch television relentlessly because I am an information junkie;   yes, I remember getting the 6 oclock news on the radio.   Television news coverage is a miracle to me.   My grandchildren are going into fields that did not exist when I was a child or my children were children.  These are miracles.  And yet, the poor we have with us in bigger numbers and they have not had a chance to experience many miracles in their life.  And they are weary!  And I don't blame them!    My dad. who was a preacher, said to me one time,  "I can't believe how terrible it would be to be born black and not be able to dream!"   Those were his eyes of the world but that world still exists for many and they are weary!

I recently read a wonderful article entitled "Who are the people who were waiting for Pope Francis?" by Joan Chittister (March 14, 2013) and she quotes Pat Howard's opinion piece in which he says:  "I still believe the church will change in due course,,,,,What I underestimated was the weariness that comes with the waiting."

That sentence knocked me for a loop as it did Chittister.   People in the world are weary with waiting.  We  try to do what we think we should to make a better neighborhood but all the bad negates  the good.   Galatians 6:9 says, "Do not be weary in well doing".   But people are tired of waiting and the results of expecting nothing but more waiting bring out violence, discontent, anger against all other opposing groups or people who are charged with making things happen in legislatures, churches or city governments.

And this man, Mr. Howard, sums up what I feel:  "It's weariness, weariness, weariness.  It's not an angry, violent, revolutionary response.  It's much worse than that.  It's a weary one and weariness is a very dangerous thing.  When people are weary, they cease to care; they cease to listen; they cease to wait."