A Hope That Waits

Dec 14, 2025  •  The Rev. Charlie Holt

Advent's third Sunday, with its pink candle, turns attention to the farmer in James 5:7-10 who cannot skip the seasons. Hope fixed on things seen becomes a quiet idolatry, as the story of Stockdale's fellow prisoners makes plain. Honest lament, voiced in the Psalms and by Job, is healthy, but grumbling crosses a line when we set ourselves up as judge over God and others.