Every December an Awaiting

December 30, 2003

EVERY December is an awaiting. The night will end, the calendar will be torn up, and the dawn will be confronted with an unheard question: "What is going to happen? Who is going to come?"

Maybe this is why every December is in advent. Christians limit advent to the four weeks before Christmas. This interpretation probably comes from the 12th century, from the Latin, adventus, derived from the verb advenire which literally means &

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