This made me think a lot:
“Celebrating Advent means learning how to wait. Waiting is an art which our impatient age has forgotten.
The greatest, the deepest, the most tender experiences in all the world demand patient waiting. This waiting is not in emotional turmoil, but gently growing, like the emergence of spring, like God’s laws, like the germinating of a seed.
The celebration of Advent is possible only to those who are troubled in soul, who know themselves to be poor and imperfect, and who look forward to something greater to come. For these, it is enough to wait in humble fear until the Holy One himself comes down to us, God in the child in the manger. God comes. The Lord Jesus comes. Christmas comes. Christians rejoice!”
Dietrich Bonhoeffer, from a sermon delivered in Barcelona on Dec. 2, 1928
