The word “Advent” is derived from a Latin word which means “to come.” That is because the purpose of the season is to focus our thoughts on the “coming” of Jesus, in a manger long ago, in each age since then through Christ’s body, the Church, and in our lives today. As we do that focusing, we are therefore invited to engage in “purposeful waiting,” looking for where God might have already been moving in our lives, anticipating where God might move in the future, and then making tentative steps to align our current lives to what God is about to do.