That is the hope of Advent. Just look at many of our own homes. With Advent the ecclesiastical year begins in the Western churches. During this time the faithful are admonished to prepare themselves worthily to celebrate the anniversary of the Lord's coming into the world as the incarnate God of love, thus to make their souls fitting abodes for the Redeemer coming in Holy Communion and through grace, and thereby to make themselves ready for His final coming as judge, at death and at the end of the world.
Advent is therefore a season of hope.
That is the hope of Advent. Advent focuses on the notion that God is still coming, still working his future among us. Though it is wrapped in brightly colored paper and shiny ribbons, though it is accompanied by sprightly music and expressions of joy, rushing Christmas, hurrying merely to celebrate something that has already happened, is a peculiar form of hopelessness. That is the hope of Advent. The days are surely coming, says the LORD, when I will fulfill the promise I made to the house of Israel and the house of Judah.