Perhaps it is the simple fact that I have spent much of the second half of the year 2013 in some sort of state of waiting or expectancy -- what is wrong, is the diagnosis correct, should I get the surgery, waiting for the surgery, having the surgery, waiting through recovery -- but I just cannot find that waiting and watching spirit that is supposed to be the hallmark of the Advent season. So today, I'm not going to engage with text from the Lectionary cycle; I'm not going to tackle a text from that lovely Advent calendar I have been using -- today I am not going to engage…