Even so, our waiting is not the end. In todays Gospel about the end of the world, we read: The people will languish in fearful expectation as they await the things that will come over the entire world; for the powers of Heaven will be shaken [Luke 21:26]. There is a character of fearful expectation when things start to tremble, when life is felt to be so menacing. Nevertheless, it is bourgeois simply to wait for the sky to become light again. This experience of waiting will continue to be wrongly understood unless one sees that we are meant to learn from it. Man is not permitted to fixate himself too much within his own sphere of life, settling himself too firmly in place until he is chased away. We will wrongly understand this waiting if we forget that the deeper meaning of life is to keep watch
This should be our first Advent light: to understand everything, all that happens to us and all that threatens us, from the perspective of lifes character of waiting. We must endure all the blessedness and un-blessedness of waiting because we are under way. The character of life is to keep going, to keep a lookout, and to endure until the vigilant heart of man and the heart of God who meets us come together
Thank You.