Do you like advent? (from grade 3)?

Question

A grade 3 asked me if i like advent.. how should I answer .. and why do you like advent? Please use simple words ..and please relate to advent.. if you don't have any reason.. please don't answer
Thanks

Answer 1

I like Advent because it leads us up to Christmas. All through Advent, we think about the coming birth of Jesus and what it was like for people before he was born. I think of the verse in Isaiah 9:2 that says, "The people walking in darkness have seen a great light; on those living in the land of the shadow of death a light has dawned." We are looking forward to that great light. In church, we light a new candle each week until Christmas when the big candle is lit. Then on Christmas Eve, it is so beautiful to stand in the dark church with all the people, each with a lit candle as we sing "Silent Night" together. Advent is a special time, just as Lent is before Easter.

Answer 2

Yes.

During this season of Advent when all of Christendom looks back to the first coming of Christ at Bethlehem and looks to the future when Christ will come again, I add my voice:
"O come, O come, Emmanuel!"

With love in Christ.

Answer 3

Like Snowglobe, I love the waiting for Christmas part of Advent.
I love the purple or blue vestments of the Season.
I love the quiet hymns, almost like we don't want to wake up the Baby Jesus.

And the waiting reminds me of two things---

Waiting for Christ to return and take us and all the goodness of the universe into His Kingdom

And it reminds me of when I was a kid and we waited for our Dad to come home from work, so we could talk to him and have dinner.

Answer 4

Whether you like it or not - for it is man -made tradition, the nub of it is always the same - Jesus is the reason for the season.