The materials from A Sanctified Art* for the 2nd week of Advent invite us to slow down and perceive how God is actually at work, not how we may wish God were working.

I invite all of us to consider what we wish deep down the world to be, to confront our disappointment that the world doesn't match our own visions, to consider that God is working toward something even better than we can possibly imagine, and to grapple with the very real pain of waiting.