Advent is a time of waiting…but not just waiting aimlessly. It’s waiting expectantly, waiting for a promise to be fulfilled, waiting for something beyond our dreams or imagination, waiting for the unexpected that will completely surprise us. It’s a waiting for what God will do, and he makes what he is doing visible among us in the unexpected miracle of a child’s birth, in the unfathomable shadow of a cross, and in boundless gifts of water, bread and wine.