Prison Cell Waiting

Though Christmas is over, Advent continues. We are still waiting. Waiting for God to set things right. Waiting for Christ to come and draw all history to a close. Waiting for justice to be done. Waiting for that final day when:

They will neither harm nor destroy on all my holy mountain, for the earth will be filled with the knowledge of the Lord as the waters cover the sea. - Isais 11:9

Take some time to ponder this reality - that we are still waiting. As you do so, lean into the wisdom of one of the modern day saints who reflected on this from a prison cell before he was executed by the Nazis.

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, from a letter to his fiancee, Maria von Wedemeyer from Tegel Prison, November 21, 1943