I will be starting a new series called Tis the Season and the title of the Message is Lists. In this advent series I will be looking at some of the things that I think of when we enter and go through this season. This first talk is about wish lists that we used to make as children about the things that we wanted Santa to bring. At the heart of what these lists speak to is the idea of Hope. So we will be looking at what we hope for and how we handle things when we are forced to wait for long periods of time with no signs that what we want is ever going to come.