Scripture Reflection

Advent - The long history of waiting

We wait in the spirit of the people of Israel who waited in their

history for the intervention of God – Emmanuelle, God with us.

They waited as they wandered in the desert for forty years,

and they waited in Exile in Babylon for almost seventy years.

In this same spirit Jesus and his disciples, both women and men,

waited for God’s leading. In Luke’s Infancy Narrative Anna and

Simeon waited to see God’s presence in Jesus. The disciples

waited after the death of Jesus to see and hear the leading of God.

As we wait this Advent we know that we are accompanied by

this “cloud of witnesses” who have gone before us an awaited

God’s leading.

We know the experience of God with us and yet we await

this experience with hope.

Reflection question:

We know who we await this Advent, the question is how do we wait?