ADVENT 2014 waiting for ???

We are going now to travel through the landscape of ADVENT. Which special trees
are we going to see ??? In Namibia we observe the tree "all people wait for the rain".
In the North, there is the tree "all people wait for the spring". Nature learns to wait.
WAITING is so important, so natural, so human that the CHURCH has decided:
We celebrate the WAITING !

As we need the rain, the spring - we CHRISTIANS need GOD. So we wait...
During "WAITING" we may develop ideas, dreams, perceptions... how the rain will pour down, how the spring will look like...  it's important to foresee the situation in order to make he best of it or to prevent damages. Ever heard about planning ???

WAITING for God - you may develop an image, a picture, a model, a dream, a perception: HOW GOD LOOKS LIKE ! HOW it will feel GOD's ARRIVAL ???
Most of our Christians are not used to develop such an idea because they know already. They know God and his work and his coming: they know best. But worse,
they feel: it's not alllowed to create such a picture because the CHURCH told us already HOW we have to see our GOD. (What a great misunderstanding!!!)

JESUS had an other "lifestyle". HE called us to be awake, to be attentive; to open our eyes and ears, our brain and heart - don't forget God's coming may be like a total surprise. And how can you be ready if you have no idea ? at least if you are not open for a total surprise ? The young Jesus-movement had the courage to develop a new idea about God. And the CHURCH had many times told the people HOW God looks like... and the CHURCH has discovered: GOD IS CHANGING...
there are ideas about God now out of use, out of the run; we may go with Jesus
to discover the image of God for our time

For this work we have the ADVENT. There are so many reasons to paint a new picture of God, to get a new understandning of God - it's the biggest challenge for the theology of our time. God is not the old one - we need for our world a new idea about God - everyone is invited to do this work - and than Christmas will get
an open heart for the message that Jesus discovered a total new Idea about the MYSTERY of God.