tim is reading God is in the Manger by Dietrick Bonhoeffer this advent season. i read it too sometimes - reading this today was encouraging - i hope it is encouraging for you as well.
Let's not deceive ourselves. "Your redemption is drawing near" (Luke 21:28), whether we know it or not, and the only question is: Are we going to let it come to us too, or are we going to resist it?... Christmas is coming - whether it is with us or without us depends on each and every one of us.
... "Look up and raise your heads" (Luke 21:28 RSV). Advent creates people, new people. We too are supposed to become new people in Advent.
Look up, you whose gaze is fixed on this earth, who are spellbound by the little events and changes on the face of the earth. Look up to these words, you who have turned away from heaven disappointed. Look up, you whose eyes are heavy with tears... Look up, you who, burdened with guilt, cannot lift your eyes.
Look up, your redemption is drawing near.
Something different from what you see daily will happen. Just be aware, be watchful, wait just another short moment. Wait and something quite new will break over you:
God will come.
May we each have eyes to see God's coming this advent.
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