Advent Series with Rev. Jean Ward

“One day in the fall, as water and air cooled, at some precise temperature an ancient bell sounded in the turtle brain.
A signal: Take a deep breath”

You are invited to participate in a meditative look at Advent through 24 diverse experiences of the animal world in the northern hemisphere. Gayle Boss has created a marvelous book that explores the advent mystery of new beginnings through the stories of other created creatures. In the introduction she says:

“The more I am with animals and the more I learn about them, the more I know they can be more than our companions on this planet. They can be our guides. They can be to us “a book about God…a word of God,” the God who comes, even in the darkest season, to bring us a new beginning.”

Advent is the season of dwindling light and gathering cold – with a mystery at its core. Animals of the northern hemisphere enact that mystery. Watching them, we can find a way to face our primal fear of the dark and cold, a healthier way than falling into depression or spiraling into frenzied distraction.

For each day of Advent, All Creation Waits opens a window onto the world of an animal amazingly, ingeniously adapting when darkness and cold descend. The animals show us in twenty-five different ways the deep mystery and abiding truth at the heart of the Christ story: The dark is not an end, but the way a new beginning comes.