Anticipate the Table

Anticipation means hope, eagerness, and expectation. Anticipate
means to "beat someone to it", get ahead, or do in advance.
Christmas reminds the Christian that we live in anticipation but
that in living in hope we are called to actively anticipate. We are
to live like children who anticipate the Christmas season by
working hard at their school work. For instance, in my home, my
kids work really hard in August on their home school work so that
they can take off from Thanksgiving week until Christmas. They
anticipate not just with feelings but with actions as they wait for
their favorite time of the year. In the Bible, those who lived
before Jesus taught us how to anticipate the 2nd advent in the way
that they anticipated the 1st advent during very real earthly
battles, struggles, successes and failures.