Eager Expectation

In Advent, we wait with eager expectation and live in "hope". Eager expectation is like someone standing in the dark scanning the horizon - leaning forward - afraid to blink - not wanting to miss a moment - waiting for the first sign of dawn. Knowing that dawn is coming the expectant watcher doesn't fear the darkness around simply tries to see through it watching, waiting, and knowing that the light will come. It's not a watcher who "hopes-so" it's a watcher who knows that light will soon return.

It's like the pelican who stands at the end of the dock waiting for the fisherman's boat to return knowing they will be fed.

It's like the pregnant mother and father who just found out their due date.

It's like a child watching a cocoon waiting for the caterpillar to break free as a butterfly.

This Advent we wait with eager expectation.

Romans 8:18-21

I consider that the sufferings of this present time are not worth comparing with the glory about to be revealed to us. For the creation waits with eager longing for the revealing of the children of God; for the creation was subjected to futility, not of its own will but by the will of the one who subjected it, in hope that the creation itself will be set free from its bondage to decay and will obtain the freedom of the glory of the children of God.