Hi, I'm Susie Larson.

Thanks for listening to this special Christmas replay from Susie Larson Live.

This is an encore presentation of Susie Larson Live.

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Welcome to Susie Larson Live.

Always honored to get to spend this time with you.

In fact, I look forward to bringing you conversations every single day

That hopefully inspire you in your faith walk

That deepen your understanding of God's Word

And that heightens your awareness of his very real presence in your life. Well, we've got a very special show plan for you

today. In fact, I pray you can grab a cup of coffee, a cup of tea, nestle in, and I just want you

to be ministered to today, because we're going to talk about Advent, the meaning of Advent.

What does it mean to prepare our hearts

for this season? Well, Advent means arrival. It means coming. And so for generations,

Christians have engaged in the Advent season to prepare their hearts to celebrate an honor,

the fact that Jesus, think about it, on his throne in heaven, took off that robe,

stepped into the cosmos, entered the womb of a virgin girl, and born in a place where animals

graze. Try to imagine, you know, it wasn't that it was an oversight that God forgot to call

ahead and get him a hotel.

It was so purposeful that Jesus came for the lowliest of the low in a day of incredible crisis and evil and opposition.

And he came so that we could know that he came for us.

Well, I love the idea of Advent because it's so easy to rush headlong into

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