Advent 2025

For Advent this year, we will do our Advent Blocks again. The kids still ask for it, so we will keep doing it :) 

For school, we will be walking through The Savior was Born from Driven by Grace. We have been using their curriculum for our Bible time, so we will take a break from our Old Testament study and walk through this Christmas study in December.

For our family advent reading at dinner time, we will use our Advent Wreath. Our church handed out family Advent reading, so we will use that as we light our candles each evening. 

For my own personal study, I will read The Dawning of Indestructible Joy by John Piper. Every year, our Women's Ministry Director gifts the leaders an Advent devotional, and I look forward to seeing what she picks!

As we enter this season, I am trying to ease into it as much as I can. I'm not ready for the onslaught of joy and cheer, and I'm not really sure if I want it. If I had my choice, I would hibernate and spend the next month quietly reading and drinking hot chocolate, not leaving the house unless absolutely necessary. I would prefer to hide away to process my grief in this season, without the expectations of the season, without the endless list of holiday "to-do's." But that's difficult to find the balance with kids and still having to meet the demands of ministry. So I'm doing my best to simplify where I can, and turn my heart in anticipation and hope of our coming Savior.