In Waiting

I love Advent.

Thankfully, I usually feel very close to God, 

as if He is walking the streets with us.

But it's so good to be reminded of how to seek-

how to continually wait for our Savior.

I want to be ready for it, O Come Emmanuel.

"Enlarge the place of your tent,

And let them stretch out the curtains of your dwellings;

DO NOT SPARE; 

Lengthen your cords,

And strengthen your stakes."

-Isaiah 54:2

So even though I know God is here,

I feel the humility of waiting.

It forces us to recognize we need a Saviour. 

I want to prepare for Him, make room in my life, 

radically shift all aspects to accommodate.

I will heed Isaiah's message and not spare anything,

I will let God work in every part of me.

I see the glory in our world, His fingerprints all over it,

but I see the distance we have to go,

before all is as it should be.

An exiled people, wandering and lonely, 

we are ransomed by our Lord.

I love Advent.

"Rejoice Rejoice! Emmanuel shall come to you,

O Israel."