Advent is a journey...or used to be, right?! A time to prepare spiritually for the celebration of Christmas, traditionally with some soul-searching, repentance, and even fasting.
Nowadays we're usually journeying to keep our wits about us in the crush of commercialism and Christmas parties, and I've been thinking about how to creatively journey through the season, and spoken with some of you about this.
Would you be interested in meeting for the four weeks of Advent, and doing a creative exercise together for an hour or two? I've had this on my heart for a little while, and I think it's something I need to do in community, so checking with the sisterhood :)
I'm going to propose the following, and inviting a couple of you who I haven't spoken with yet, cuz I think you will like the idea, which is.....We meet once a week for each of the four weeks of Advent, beginning the week of Nov. 27, for only an hour or two. I would give you some kind of creative exercise to do, and some food for thought to get you launched.
I like the idea of taking the four weeks to do one thing, so it has time to develop and 'birth'-just like the season.
More to come...
Pat
By the way, welcome our English sisters that will join us on this journey. Looking forward to sharing these 4 weeks with you. How exciting!
Silvi
Pat and Silvi, Thank you for all the work you've done on this. I am excited to see what the Lord has in store for us.
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