There shall come forth a shoot from the stump of Jesse, and a branch shall grow out of its roots. He will be clothed with righteousness and faithfulness. The wolf shall dwell with the lamb, and the leopard shall lie down with the kid, and the calf and the lion and the fatling together, and a little child shall lead them. Peace and God's presence, Christmas and Christ, the Savior and salvation, are all tied up together. Christmas means the coming of the Prince of Peace.
Advent means expecting that the world can really change.
And the vision of all this has become to you like the words of a book that is sealed. And now, go, write it before them on a tablet, and inscribe it in a book, that it may be for the time to come as a witness for ever. That is the way things are, still today. Don't talk about hard things. Don't look at painful things.