2nd Sunday of Advent

This Advent, we look at a text that is outwardly not very "Adventy." John the Baptist
sends word to Jesus from his prison cell, asking, “Are you the one?” John has spent his
entire life preparing the way for Jesus, but from his prison cell, now certainly facing
death, the future looks grim. Like John, even the most confident of us wonder from time
to time: Is all this work worth it? Does anything I do matter? Am I on the right track? We
can’t always see the fruits of our labor, yet God is at work anyway. How might we,
like Jesus and Isaiah, point to the places where God is at work in our world? How might
we let this powerful reminder prepare us for Christmas?