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• Advent is a holy season of waiting. We learn how to wait for God.
• Waiting well is an important spiritual skill, because God often moves slowly. When we look at the history of the world and of the human race, we see that God is never in a hurry.
• God is outside of time. All of time is like a single moment for Him. He sees all of human history from the highest perspective.
• When we interact with God, we have to be willing for Him to act slowly. We have to be willing to wait. “Show, O Lord, thy ways to me. Teach me thy paths”, we say in today’s Introit. His ways are slow.
• Abraham: God first appears to him when he is 75 years old, and promises that he will make a great nation of him. But his wife is not able to have any children. After 25 years, God appears to Abraham, when he is 100 ye ...