A creative companion in your Advent season

This resource is full of art, poetry, Advent-themed reflections, creative invitations, spiritual practices, and space for your own creative response, and can be a companion to your season in many different ways. Here are a few ways you might approach this resource (whether in its print or digital version):

-       As a retreat guide. At some point in the course of Advent, you may have space to take some solitude and explore and wonder with God about things. This will offer reflections and spiritual and creative practices that can hold you in that space. It will also offer room for journaling through your retreat

-       As a weekly devotional. There will be a particular theme each week, and several ways of engaging that theme, so you may want to choose one day each week of Advent as a time to engage more deeply with these practices and prayers and longings along the way.

-       As daily prompts and space to invite you further up and further in, right in the midst of your every day. There will be art and poetry and lectio divina and imaginative prayer and invitations to creative response, that could be spread across all the days of the week as you go. There are some one-word prompts included in your guide, enough for a new one each day, so you may want to just take one word each morning and hold it, respond to it throughout your day, let it inform you Advent experience and prayer.

-       Or anything in between! Let it accompany you with your morning coffee, or make space for you to process difficult emotions that are coming up in the course of the season. Let it be a container for your Advent longings, for the hopes and fears of all the years, for the tidings of comfort and joy, for little glimpses of light while it is still dark. Read the poems and write your to-do lists—whatever your soul needs space for this Advent!

Digital preorder is $20, and will be sent out November 24th!

(See also print version here, and companion spiritual direction/group sessions here!)