This week it's all about Advent. Here are some ways we can look for and abide in light as the shepherds did, to make space for Jesus to grow and to share Him as Mary did, and to give out of what we have just like the wise men did! Advent is a beautiful season of expectant joy, so let's enter in together!
1. The Advent and Christmas music video we made for our chapel community. Hope it's a blessing to you!
2. Video: Handel's Messiah: O Thou That Tellest Good Tidings to Zion (Behold Your God)
3. Mary's Magnificat with a reflection from the Kairos Center
4. She Reads Truth free daily Advent Bible study online or printed copies of the study available here
5. Album: Handel: Messiah, Toronto Mendelssohn Choir and Symphony Orchestra
6. Song: Advent Hymn, Christy Nockels
7. Song: The Wexford Carol, Alison Krauss, Yo-Yo Ma, Natalie MacMaster
8. Children's Book: Jesus' Christmas Party, by Nicholas Allan
9. Serve: In your community, with your gifts. Local to me, I'll be spending some time at My Brother's Keeper this Advent.
10. Have a look (via your computer's search engine) at how the Annunciation or the Visitation is depicted in art across cultures and generations.
11. Journal prompts (write in the company of a candle):
What does it say about God that Jesus came to Earth as a human baby? Why would that make a difference in my own life?
What comes to mind when I remember my most cherished Christmas memory? What does that memory speak about me? My family? God?
How can I allow Jesus to grow in me this Advent? Who is the person God is calling me uniquely to share my faith with at this time?
12. WONDERFUL free family Advent resources from the Church in the 21st Century at Boston College: Drawing God for Advent, Breakfast With God (30-minute faith formation program on zoom), Faith Feeds (faith discussions with friends). Subscribe to C21 for updates!
