OPENING
THE DOOR OF ADVENT

Topics: Advent; Christmas; Freedom; Grace; Hope; Waiting

Reference: Luke 1:76–79

A prison cell, in which one waits, hopes, does various unessential things, and is completely dependent on the fact that the door of freedom has to be opened from the outside is not a bad picture of Advent.

—Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Letters and Papers from Prison (SCM Press, 1953)