The Fourth Sunday of Advent invites us to inhabit a place where we learn to practise a greater degree of trust. This deepens with each cycle of the liturgical year as annually we make this preparation for the feast of the Incarnation.
The reading from the Old Testament takes us to the prophet Isaiah, who places before us a perennial dilemma that never goes away. In the face of a crisis, do we try to fight our way out using the resources of pragmatism and the politics of power and persistence, or do we explore the promises of God and learn to exercise courage and faithfulness in the spiritual dimension?
