photo loves love feeling anticipation things small anticipate encompasses feeling quite advent season waiting perfectly wrapped anticipation presented gifts anticipation makes waiting delicious satisfying bearable child lighting advent candles creating handmade advent calendar well-worn path rituals traditions leading christmas worked magic anticipation excitement built stand culminating christmas service sanctuary full candle light beloved christmas hymns year service home church ends silent night perfectly timed final acapella verse jesus lord birth fades midnight pause organ triumphantly begins postlude lights turned hugs exclaiming merry christmas merry christmas moment waiting college student waited moment final exam handed hurry michigan winter back dorm room finish packing head home date calendar parents knew advance pick college counted weeks days wedding years owned book week week baby womb forming ears fully formed toes baby finger nails suck waiting anticipating counting days end-point result christmas exam week baby born type waiting reflect idea waiting start advent season feels creature void comforting certainty breeds anticipation specific moments wait anticipation upcoming trip visit family holidays completion work project vacation we're planning summer waiting complex wait sign change heart wait inspiration direction complete healing reconciliation wait life live align life envision head crave soul words things find waiting marked calendar candles light week grow nearer point arrival building excitement moment inevitably draws close anticipation stripped left waiting periods hope clouded periods doubt waiting things hoping waiting promises fuel waiting church sunday advent realized kind waiting we're christians important observe advent journey december specific celebrate flesh dwelling important teach children waiting exciting rewarding demonstrate wreaths candles special calendars small doors open gradually revealing full picture full picture we're waiting we're waiting things earth heaven date calendar date stop feeling hurt difficult things past true feels futile waiting games god's promises scriptures read church yesterday jeremiah tells jeremiah count god's covenant promises jeremiah counts rising night promises abstract uncertain waiting wraps kind anticipation moving forward hope post part series christine sine's blog godspace waiting advent you're celebrating advent learn check 