Advent waiting day eight. I slept through our advent devotional last night or at least most of it. I awoke suddenly with the lit candle in my view like a light wakening me from a dream and my wife smiling at me just finishing our Advent prayers. I sometimes marvel at sleeping through devotionals or prayers. I regularly wake up in the middle of my own evening praying, kneeling with my wife in our living room, warm and close, one moment talking to God the next sleeping by Him, the next waking to my wife squeezing my hand to get me back on task. I tell all of this to say I was greatly comforted last night to awake to my wife standing watch over our waiting, the weary waiting which had overtaken me. It is good to wait together for as one wearies the other is strengthened by the sustenance of love, and in the dark night of waiting, lights the candle, and quietly reads The Word as not to interrupt the devotionals of her sleeping lover.
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