A Joyous Christmas

A Joyous Christmas

 Celebrate the coming of Christ. Celebrate Incarnation. Celebrate Emmanuel.  For Unto Us a Child is born. Unto us a Son is Given.   Isaiah 9:6-7 May this completed Advent be the start of a fresh, new journey with Jesus for the coming year, an unfolding experience of...

Sing, Sign, Expect–Advent Words

Below are a few verbal and visual reflections on words from#AdventWord 2018. #SINGing is my primary learning style. It is probably not in the educators’ official handbook of learning styles with auditory, verbal, visual, kinesthetic…but it includes all of...

Wild and Cry–Advent Words

For the first nine days of Advent I have really enjoyed combining praying in color with #AdventWord. Everyday #AdventWord (adventword.org)  sends  an email with a new word and a reflection on the word. The chosen words are based on the Advent lectionary from year C....

More Advent Calendar Ideas

Besides drawing an Advent Calendar using the templates for this year (see the bottom of this post), here are several other ideas for creating a daily visual Advent calendar. Draw your own calendar. My first praying in color Advent calendars were drawn one-day-at-a...

#AdventWord and Advent Calendars

“#AdventWord is a global, online Advent calendar. Each day from the first Sunday of Advent through Christmas Day, #AdventWord offers meditations and images to inspire and connect individuals and a worldwide community of believers to the themes of Advent....