Advent is not a season that is very popular… Once Thanksgiving is over…we want to push this in-between time of stillness aside and move on to Christmas. We are eager to begin putting up decorations and singing Christmas carols, to go shopping and plan parties—in short, not to wait for anything at all.

Waiting is not something most of us feel very inclined to do. …Waiting makes us feel impatient and bored. …We are almost afraid of stillness, of silence—of time “between times.”

from Soundings