Advent comes at the darkest time of the year. We light the candles for hope, peace, joy and love. We hang the star atop the tree and flip the switch to light its branches. It is Advent, the season when we await the coming of the Christ child, the light of the world. It is a season of darkness transformed by the hope of light. When the sun rises in the morning and the new day arrives, we get up. It is time to put the darkness, with its unknowns and fears, behind us and to get on with the work of our lives. So it is with Advent...