Advent hope:

Anticipating.

Waiting.

Looking.

Searching.

He’s coming.

Advent peace:

Soothing troubled hearts,

Relaxing furrowed brows,

Calming anxious frowns.

Wholeness.

Well-being.

He’s coming.

Advent joy:

Bubbling from within,

Tremulous at first,

Just the occasional bubble,

Then overflowing like a lava lamp,

Light and colours,

Lightness and ebullience.

He’s coming.

Advent love:

Arms holding us,

Cuddles,

Warmth.

Everlasting Father,

Everlasting love,

Wrapped in swaddling cloths in a manger.

He’s here.

God with us.

Jesus,

Born to save us.

We have waited so long for this moment.

We tiptoe to the manger.

We peer in anxiously,

And hope, peace, joy, love make sense now.

You’re here.

All will be well.