The Meaning is in the Waiting: The Spirit of Advent
Waiting through Advent
If you want an easy fix for a busy, impatient life, this is not the book for you but if you want to spend Advent reflecting on waiting, thinking about what happens when you wait and accompanying Abraham and Sarah, the prophets…
Do you find waiting tough…?
If you want an easy fix for a busy, impatient life, this is not the book for you but if you want to spend Advent reflecting on waiting, thinking about what happens when you wait and accompanying Abraham and Sarah, the prophets, John the Baptist and Mary in their waiting, then you might find something here to interest you.
Paula Gooder is a scholar and has grounded this book in scripture. She takes the Advent Candle Wreath, now so popular in many of our churches, as her pattern and uses it to take us through the Advent scripture readings of the Church and the people each candle on the Advent wreath represents.
Is waiting always passive? Is it a way of being or simply a list of tasks? Is there virtue in waiting?
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