Advent calls our attention away from resurrection to incarnation. Jesus becomes flesh. Love has skin and bones. Hope moves like oxygen coursing through arteries and veins to reach from and through the heart. Peace breathes in and out while joy functions like muscle, getting stronger the more we exercise it. Advent is ready to give birth to the kindom of God enfleshed, alive, and ready to be nurtured into maturity.

The words of Monks at the Monastery of Christ in the Desert.