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Nurture a Heart that Waits with Joyful, Expectant Faith
Step into the Advent season with The Art of Living in Advent, a beautifully crafted daily devotional by Sylvie Vanhoozer, who blends Scripture, history, art, and reflection to enrich your spiritual preparation for Christmas. Centered around the traditional French santons, or "little saints," this book invites you to imagine Christ's presence in your daily life-right where you are. Through thoughtful devotions, original artwork, and prompts for prayer and reflection, this devotional offers a creative and meaningful way to deepen your faith this Advent.
With her exquisite illustrations and daily devotions, Vanhoozer encourages readers to recognize themselves as part of the nativity, welcoming Christ into the everyday. This Advent, discover how to nurture a heart that watches and waits with joyful, expectant faith. This devotional offers a pathway to quiet reflection, spiritual growth, and attentiveness to Christ.
Key Features:
- Creative Engagements: Scripture, prayers, reflection prompts, and daily activities designed to inspire.
- Aesthetic Beauty: Original botanical artwork by the author and illustrations of Provençal santons.
- Rich Tradition: Explore the story behind French santons and their connection to faith in the everyday.
- Daily Devotions: Each day includes a passage, devotional content, and practical applications focused on Christ's presence.
Begin Your Advent Journey
Discover a new way to welcome Christ this season by ordering your copy of The Art of Living in Advent today. Each day of Advent, take a step toward becoming a person who knows how to watch and wait joyfully with expectant faith in Christ's presence and activity in your own person and place.
Step into the Advent season with The Art of Living in Advent, a beautifully crafted daily devotional by Sylvie Vanhoozer, who blends Scripture, history, art, and reflection to enrich your spiritual preparation for Christmas. Centered around the traditional French santons, or "little saints," this book invites you to imagine Christ's presence in your daily life-right where you are. Through thoughtful devotions, original artwork, and prompts for prayer and reflection, this devotional offers a creative and meaningful way to deepen your faith this Advent.
With her exquisite illustrations and daily devotions, Vanhoozer encourages readers to recognize themselves as part of the nativity, welcoming Christ into the everyday. This Advent, discover how to nurture a heart that watches and waits with joyful, expectant faith. This devotional offers a pathway to quiet reflection, spiritual growth, and attentiveness to Christ.
Key Features:
- Creative Engagements: Scripture, prayers, reflection prompts, and daily activities designed to inspire.
- Aesthetic Beauty: Original botanical artwork by the author and illustrations of Provençal santons.
- Rich Tradition: Explore the story behind French santons and their connection to faith in the everyday.
- Daily Devotions: Each day includes a passage, devotional content, and practical applications focused on Christ's presence.
Begin Your Advent Journey
Discover a new way to welcome Christ this season by ordering your copy of The Art of Living in Advent today. Each day of Advent, take a step toward becoming a person who knows how to watch and wait joyfully with expectant faith in Christ's presence and activity in your own person and place.
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"Sylvie Vanhoozer is a marvelous guide to the art of living in Advent. Her experience as a child during Advents in Provence; her theological pilgrimage in Paris, Cambridge, Edinburgh, Chicago, and beyond; her passion and work as an artist; and her many years of ministry as a homemaker, mother, and host to hundreds in her home during Advent and Christmas have prepared her to write this very book. F
Douglas A. Sweeney, dean and professor of divinity at Beeson Divinity School
"A charming, enriching series of reflections that sheds light on some familiar aspects of Advent (traditional carols) and introduces us to new ones (especially the santons, the Provençal villagers who make their own pilgrimages to pay homage to the Christ child, gifts in hand). Lovingly highlighting the terroir, native plants, and local customs, these vignettes show how ordinary saints made the So
Elizabeth Sung, visiting associate professor of theology at Regent College
"Here is a book to make artists of us all, an invitation to experience Advent as never before. Bringing together beauty and worship, Scripture and daily life, anticipation and adoration, this lovely book offers a new pathway, in the company of charming saints and their most intriguing custom and culture. Here is richness worthy of the season."
Linda McCullough Moore, author of The Book of Not So Common Prayer