“Life in a prison cell may well be compared to Advent. One waits, hopes, and does this, that, or the other – things that are really of no consequence – the door is shut and can only be opened from the outside.”
An Advent Reflection from Dietrich Bonhoeffer.
With this insight from Dietrich Bonhoeffer, written as he sat in a Nazi jail, we begin Advent.
Waiting. Hoping. Doing inconsequential things. All in anticipation of the door being opened.
What Bonhoeffer experienced as he waited in a prison cell can be compared to those who wait in poverty. They wait. Patiently. …