Emil Brunner on the difference Advent makes:
God is with me,
so that there is no longer any despair for me.
God has done what needed to be done,
so that there is nothing in this world,
not even its darkest aspects,
that he has not himself gone through;
no place which he has not visited..,
so he also comes into your despair.
So Jesus Christ has entered into everything that is human,
even the most dreadful,
so that there may be no human place,
no human experience,
no difficulty,
no situation,
in which there is no relationship with God.
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