Advent : "Is where promises and pain intersect"

I just realized the reason I love the season of advent so much-because it affirms my soul and recognizes the season I’ve been in for so long. It both recognizes where I am but also surfaces the pain of heart desires I have— as I wait on God’s timing and plan.

Reminds me of the deepest wounds I have and the deepest longings I still have. 

It’s where promises and pain intersect reminding me of life I’ve lived and life I haven’t lived.

Waiting has been the most regular rhythm of my life. And at Advent I think theres a way the waiting unifies humanity as was remember and wait on Christmas day to celebrate Jesus’s coming on earth as a child.

Waiting has exposed my great love for God and deepening trust in Him. Because He sees the whole picture of my life and I see only these small moments.

The 2 people in scripture that come to mind first for me are Hannah (1 Samuel 2:1) & Elisabeth (Luke 1:26). The beautiful of both of these women is they were faithful and they continued to seek and trust God even in the unknowns. Both of them having radical experience's of God showing up and providing children to come from their womb. Hannah’s prayer will always impress me because she starts in with praise and adoration to the Lord in 1 Samuel 2:1 “My heart exults in the Lord; my horn is exalted in the Lord.”

I want that kind of quick praise and adoration to the Lord to quickly come from my lips in every season but especially in the waiting seasons.

I pray that this season of Advent has given you the opportunity to realize what you’ve been waiting on and trust God with it all.