My challenge at the beginning of Advent at the end of the millennium is twofold. First, I would put you back in touch with your own longing for God's intervention, not only in relation to the chronic problems of this world all humanity seems unable to resolve. Think of it. We have more information than ever before, more technology, more scientific answers, but we still cannot feed the world and live in peace and give every child an even chance to rise to his or her potential. And it isn't God's fault.
Humanity can only blame itself.
But you and I feel helpless in relation to our own small problems, let alone the challenges of the whole world. We cannot even get our own lives and relationships straightened out the way we would like them. But someone has planted in us that vision of a world which is better than this world is now. Someone has planted within us an notion that we ourselves can be better than we have been, do better with what we have been given. Someone has planted in us a dream of a future much better than humanity's past.