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Good Morning.听 What are you most looking forward to at Christmas? For many, it will be the presents.听 For some it is the opportunity to spend time with loved ones. For others it鈥檚 the anticipation of time away from work. Christmas is something to anticipate.

The Season of Advent is precisely about anticipation; it is about waiting, indeed longing, for the coming of Christ. Waiting is a difficult discipline.听 Few are predisposed to it; and yet waiting is not without merit.

Scripture is filled with stories of those who waited on God expectantly. Abram and Sarai waited for a child, Simeon waited in the Temple to see the promised Messiah, John the Baptist waited in the wilderness until the One whose sandals he was not worthy to untie was revealed.

Waiting provides us with space to think, opportunity to prepare, room to grow, so that we are ready when that for which we wait in faith arrives.

Advent is that season of waiting. And for what do we wait? We await nothing less than the intervention of God in the affairs of the world, the politics of nations, the wellbeing of the planet, and the life of all creation.

Advent is so much more than a countdown to Christmas Day. It is a reminder that the God who came in Christ at Christmas will come again to make all things new.听 That is something worth waiting for.

God of beginnings and endings,
God of waiting and hoping and longing,
God of life, and death, and resurrection:
may your life be present to us
your light sufficient for us
and your love made known in us and through us
as we await your coming.听 Amen.

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