Advent is a time to think about what’s coming, and what it means to wait. The way that advent does this, is it makes us look two directions at the same time. Backwards and Forwards. At Advent we remember what it was like for God’s people to wait for Jesus for thousands of years. From the beginning, they waited for the coming, conquering son. Advent also reminds us that we too are waiting for Jesus. His future return. We see in both situations that God is patient and we will talk about why that is in this lesson.