Faith Venture

[Updated to finish sentence] Elizabeth and Zeccharia lived an entire married life in anticipation of a baby. One didn’t come—until it did.

The last thing Mary wanted was a baby. She was anticipating a big wedding day. Then God said, you’re pregnant.

Luke writes of people who lived their entire lives anticipating a special kind of leader. They saw a baby and knew their prayers were answered.

Writings from the time around 2,100 years ago in the Palestine region of the Roman empire, indeed even further abroad, show an even more general attitude of spiritual awakening and anticipation.

I’m writing this during the first week of Advent. I wonder, what is my anticipation? What is our anticipation? Are we in an era of spiritual awakening? Or, are we in just another era?

Rather than “we,” what about “me?” Or you? Are we living with anticipation of a spiritual awakening?

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