You may love the season of Advent with candles and Christmas services. Those favorite Advent calendars. The book you pull out each year during these weeks before the celebration of the birth of Christ. I love it, too. To be honest, it is a favorite thing for me, to orient the days of December around the rhythms of Advent. And yet, there is pain hidden in this nostalgic ceremony of sorts. Waiting is hard. Chronic anything steals our hope. It's almost gotten harder as we have g