"in that place of darkness and waiting"

 "The whole purpose of Advent is to be for a moment fully and consciously Before Christ. In that place of darkness and waiting, we look for his coming and do not presume too much that we already know or have it.....  The core of the Christian faith, and indeed of Judaism before it, concerns a God who meets particular people in particular places, and from one small encounter builds a nation and changes everything."

                                                       - Malcolm Guite, Waiting for the Word

O Adonai and Leader of the house of Israel, who appeared to Moses in flames
of the burning bush and gave him the law on Sinai:
come and redeem us with outstretched arm.