A Season Pregnant with Purpose

God takes 40 weeks to create a human life in the incubator of a mother’s body. As the tendons are woven around the joints and the lungs find strength to eventually breathe air, the parents wait with anticipation to meet their new child: choosing a name, stocking up on supplies, and reading about what to expect in those first sleepless months of parenthood.

It is a grace from God that their journey takes the better part of a year. So, too, grace is in Advent, a season pregnant with the purpose of intentional delay. More than 2,000 years after the historic event of Jesus’s birth, we…