Advent liturgy

This year I am noticing a bit more what the Liturgy is doing during this first part of Advent. (There is a shift on Dec. 17.) The readings, especially the Gospel, are presenting the Savior to us in a way that ought to awaken in us a recognition that we need a Savior like that. So that we long for the Lord to come and save us in that way, not in a generic way, or by a generic coming, but in the way depicted in the Gospel. I want to be a bit more attentive to this, in order to conform my prayer to this spirit: to recognizing my need for this Savior, here and now, and earnestly invoking him. Not that he isn't already present among us precisely in that way, but that I may be receptive to him, and so receive him.