Hope Resonates in Repetition

During this wonderful season of advent, we anticipate the arrival of the baby Jesus.

Here at Meadowood this season, we have chosen to sing the same anticipatory song every advent Sunday—O Come O Come Emmanuel. This is of course, the most well known advent hymn, but there’s something very special and powerful about singing this song each Sunday leading up to Christmas Day.

Upon repetition, there’s a greater intensity of anticipation, a heightened sense of excitement. Each Sunday as we repeat this same song, we sing it with a renewed sense of energy, a more intense level of anticipation. It is in the repetition that we’re able to more adequately express the nuance of our excitement for the birth of Jesus the Christ.

It is in the repetition that we’re able to more adequately express the nuance of our excitement for the birth of Jesus the Christ.

Furthermore, when you repeat a familiar song, we have the opportunity to connect with different textual or literary imagery upon each repetition. This is very similar to when we read scripture. Every time we read it, something new jumps out at us.

Every time we sing this familiar advent hymn, something new should resonate within our spirit. Truly, we anticipate the coming of the Christ child!