We enter Advent hopeful and anticipatory! Like children waiting for Christmas? Or is there something else much more meaningful that we can be doing during Advent? For how much more can we hope? Isaiah tells us that all good things are possible! There is a gift here for everyone in this passage. Those of us who are concerned about the environment may read that the earth will be restored. Those of us in need of physical healing might read that we will be healed. If we are in confusion or sadness, we will anticipate being lifted out of gloom and darkness. The lowly and poor hear hope that those who tyrannize them or who are too lofty to care about them will disappear from their lives. And what a relief to hear that evil will be cut off and the just will be vindicated!