In her blog entry, Krista writes about gift giving, and the anticipation surrounding receiving gifts.

Instead of posting my lengthy comment on her blog, I’ll instead post it here, it is somewhat long, and I need to start posting more here anyway.

So here goes:

I was thinking about this last night while trying not to fall asleep on my couch (I failed), and have come to the conclusion that I am not feeling much anticipation, neither for Christmas-the-holiday, nor the return of Christ.

It’s pretty sad, actually – I can understand my lack of anticipation for Christmas, as in my mind it’s become just another capitalistic holiday. I know it’s the celebration of the birth of Christ, and we should be as happy as to celebrate that – but I’m finding that the current culture and society has done a good job of eradicating any joy I might have.

As for anticipating the return of Christ as our king – your friend made a great comment that you quoted around the time of the elections, which keeps sitting in my mind: “One day we’ll get the king we don’t deserve.”

In a way, I intellectually know that one day he’ll return, and things will be awesome and all that (well, for some/most of us, anyway) – but on the other hand, I don’t FEEL it, and thus probably don’t 100% (or more) believe it.

I have no doubt that God will work on me in his baffling ways and suddenly one day it’ll all make gobs of sense, but until then, I’ll have to work to muster the amount of anticipation that I’ve mustered so far.