First Sunday of Advent

I love advent. It's such an exciting time. All the anticipation building towards that exciting day. So much meaning.

Advent.

The cheesy newsletter that my church sends out had a section this time about advent, that was actually not that cheesy. It said that advent is a time that we try to imagine what it was like to still be waiting for the messiah. To be waiting for the day that God had promised, but that had not yet been fulfilled.

And yet, we live in that time today. Jesus has come, but we are waiting again. We await the day that the Christ will come again in glory.

Advent is both of these in one. The anticipation of the first coming of Jesus and also the anticipation of the second coming of Jesus.

For Christians, this is truly a holy time, a time of deep meaning bound up in what has been and what has yet to come about. And even what is now happening in the kingdom of God. So exciting.

I love it.