This week, we begin a season called “Advent.” This is a Christian season of anticipation of the coming of Jesus. We both look back and remember the coming of Jesus in the Incarnation as well as wait expectantly for the coming of Jesus in the future to redeem the world and to restore things to God’s goodness. However, Advent isn’t only about remembering and waiting. It is also about hope. The kind of hope that pushes us to action: the action of love. Because we have hope in Jesus, we can share that love and cry out to people in need (people like us) that, “Help is on the way!”