Kasey’s Reviews > Watch for the Light: Readings for Advent and Christmas > Status Update

"We are full of wishes, and our waiting easily gets entangled in those wishes. We want the future to go in a very specific direction, and if this does not happen we are disappointed and can even slip into despair...But Mary was not filled with wishes. She was filled with hope. Hope is trusting that something will be fulfilled, but fulfilled according to the promises and not just according to our wishes." (p. 33)