Advent isn’t supposed to soothe us. It doesn’t teach us to be stoic in the face of the irreparable damage of the world. It doesn’t teach us to be piously hopeless. Advent celebrates the Creator’s arrival to repair the damage of sin, judging and making new. Advent comforts because it promises final restoration, justice, and peace... Advent unveils a God so determined to fulfill his purpose that he did not spare his own Son but freely delivered him up for us all.—Peter J. Leithart