A prayer for the fourth Sunday of Advent

God.

We are scared and relieved and anxious and anticipating and hopeful and desperate.

All at the same time.

We are like your people have always been.
Except that they all know how their part of the story ended.
And we do not.

We know that Mary and Elizabeth were uncertain and then scared and then rejoiced.

And then wondered.

We know that the words of the prophets came to them and were said by them without them knowing, sometimes, what the words and the ideas and the promises...