This year, we've been contemplating the phrase, "Only the lover sings," but what would have been the first time the Lover sang? It would have been on that most holy night that our Savior was born into the world, when he took his first breath, and he cried. That cry was the first song of the one who pursues our heart with such passion and perseverance and that is the invitation this Advent, to cry out to the Father and give him our tears as the gateway to our hearts.