The pandemic caught us unprepared and made us wait and watch for its end. But still we’re not satisfied, because ultimately we’re all waiting for the Lord to come in glory to put everything right. Yet he also comes to us now, too, in every encounter engaged in his name, as he came at Bethlehem, and by his cross and empty tomb — joyful down-payments on his final appearing in glory, and really worth watching for. [Advent 1]