“…this Advent I invite you to spend a little less time anticipating, no matter what you’ve been told Advent is all about. I invite you to spend less time anticipating whatever it is you think will finally make you whole, whether it’s more time or more knowledge or more progress toward anything at all you don’t think you have enough of. Instead of yearning for some other life or even for a Messiah you hope will come barreling through the wilderness to give it to you, this Advent, practice the liberating humility of Isaiah. A humility that rests on resting in the miracle of the one short life you’ve been given.”