God-With-Us.
Advent
is a season of learning to wait, attentively, in the dark.
To
wait for the Lord’s return.
Yet
the paradoxical miracle of Advent is that while in a very real sense we wait
for God to come to us, in another very real sense God also waits not at a distance but with
us.
The
one who came into our world, not as an adult but as a baby; who grew into a boy
discovering the world around him; became apprenticed to a builder; who shared
the love of God with all who would welcome love; who experienced joy and sorrow;
who died a painful death…waits with us, in the birth of a new baby, in the
squabbles and excitement of children, in the application of learning a trade,
in eating and drinking with friends old and new, in our celebrations and
bereavement, in the hard-drawn final breaths of the dying, God is with us, now, for
always.
May
we discover that secret hidden in our midst, transform every moment.
O
Emmanuel
O
Emmanuel, our King and our lawgiver,
the
hope of the nations and their Saviour:
Come
and save us, O Lord our God.
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