Help us to wait, even when we feel we can’t wait any longer, when the gate of heaven stays shut tight to our appeal. Help us to wait. To wait as Israel waited, though her fate was silence for four hundred years, to steel ourselves to patience till an unknown date. Advent reminds us that the wait is real but that it’s laced with hope. However late you are in acting, yet you will not fail. Help us to wait.
Amen and amen.