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Advent: Expectant Waiting…

Several readings I have been meditating on have likened the season of waiting and anticipation to pregnancy. Interesting, this analogy, or comparison.

While I have not experienced the physical reality of pregnancy, I have walked alongside my wife through it on three occasions. I have experienced the seemingly paradoxical nature of emotions born out of this mystery that is conception-gestation-birth.

Excitement, anticipation, anxiety, exhilaration, and fear all cohabitate and gestate along with the yet-to-be-born child within…while we wait…while we wait for the fullness of time.

Expectant waiting…

There is much that we participate in, and shoulder responsibility for, as we prepare for the Kingdom to come and nurture the developing Kingdom within us.

Advent: The “before time” of the coming…

Tension and freedom coexisting. Hope and doubt mixing in a divine cocktail we dare to drink. Ecstasy and despair are the hors d’oeuvres we snack on before the wedding feast of the Lamb…

We wait…

We participate in the gestation of our hope; doing faithfully…the bidding of the King we so desperately wait for…and our hope grows…the first trimester and then a second…until we feel our bodies groaning, screaming for the Kingdom to be released; “COME LORD JESUS, COME!” Expectant waiting…

Advent: The before time of the coming

Advent is our History… our heritage. Advent is our present. Advent is our hope of the promised future…The before time of the coming.

…we wait

Giddy and groaning, we wait…

Hope looking forward with great expectation; this is Advent.

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