*Due to technical difficulties, this Advent audio offering is a little late this year. I’m sure your inboxes understand:)
I wrote and recorded this Advent series a number of years ago, but the message is timeless, and I needed the reminder this season too.
After this week (where we’ll play catch up!) I’ll send one recording a week until Christmas Eve. I hope it helps you press pause on your to do list and enter into Advent with a renewed vision for this season of waiting.
I’ll return to your inboxes this Wednesday with Week One’s recording, and then send the remaining weeks on Advent Sundays. Apologies for the mixed up schedule! After Christmas, we’ll return to our regularly scheduled reflections and meditations.
Below is the transcript if you prefer to read!
Over the years, as Christmas has crept into our inboxes, shops, and homes earlier and earlier in the season, I’ve found myself resisting it. Where I once looked forward to decking my halls and shopping for my little ones, the years have added more engagements, more gift buying, more expectations, and more money spent than ever before. I have found myself caught in a cycle of consumerism and bigger, better, best, and all the while my soul connection to Christmas withered. My vision clouded as my focus shifted from Christ’s birth to mass consumption of everything from stocking stuffers to sugar cookies. A small knot of dread began to form in my soul every December.
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