Today is the first day of Advent. I'd like to attempt to be more intentional this season. To really make time to soak in the actual truth of what it means to prepare the way for the birth of that tiny baby that came to save the world. One way of doing that is to take time to think a bit each day and write down some of what I'm discovering. My daily reading this morning had some interesting imagery about Advent that I really liked. I'm borrowing some of those words for today's post.
"What is coming upon the world is the Light of the World. It is Christ. That is the comfort of it. The challenge of it is that it has not come yet. Only the hope for it has come, only the longing for it. In the meantime we are in the dark, and the dark, God knows, is also in us. We watch and wait for a holiness to heal us and hallow us, to liberate us from the dark. Advent is like the hush in a theater just before the curtain rises. It is like the hazy ring around the winter moon that means the coming of snow which will turn the night to silver. Soon. But for the time being, our time, darkness is where we are." - Frederick Buechner, Listening to Your Life
I know that it says that the challenge is in the waiting, and I think that is true. But, also, I find that there is some comfort in the words, "But for the time being, our time, darkness is where we are." It shows me that I'm not alone in this waiting. In the darkness. The Light is coming and because I'm in the dark, I look forward to it all the more. Also, the hush in the theater and the hazy ring around the winter moon are not scary images, but sort of beautiful and mysterious ones. That is Advent. There is beauty and mystery in the waiting. In the darkness. In the anticipation of what is to come.
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