Why Should We Be Hopeful?
Advent’s strongest image is pregnancy. Elizabeth’s . . . Mary’s . . . so unexpected, so miraculous. A distant, long-promised hope is about to literally be fleshed out. As we turn our attention away from our obsession with the human condition and toward distant promise, we choose to believe that when the divine takes on our human suffering and pain, we in turn take on divinity itself.
Source: patheos.com