Waiting is hard, and it is always hard to wait for Christmas, but it has been especially hard this year. Our scripture reading, Psalm 13, hits home with this – “How long, O Lord? Will you forget me forever?” The tension between grief and “the most wonderful time of the year” can be great. One of the echoes we can hear during such times is from the affirmation of faith we often use where we affirm that “God is with us. We are not alone.”