Advent ends with Christmas. These four weeks are a time to return to the time before Jesus was born. These four weeks are an opportunity to recall all the things absent when Christ is not among us.
The prophets of old and all of Israel longed for the arrival of God's Messiah. There are psalms and prayers and oracles which address the hope for Messiah. Many of theses serve as readings during the season of Advent. Those which move me deepest are those which asked "have we been abandoned"?
What would your life be like? Had Christ not come to you? In what ways have you become so comfortable with the assurance of God's presence that you fail even to comprehend what it means that he is with you now?
We will never go back to a time when Jesus isn't with us. But Advent allows us to reflect on what this presence means.
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