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All Creation Waits: The Advent Mystery of New Beginnings
by Gayle Boss
Illustrations by David G. Klein
Published by Paraclete Press


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This Advent Season, join other members of St. Mark's in prayerfully reading and reflecting on "All Creation Waits: The Advent Mystery of New Beginnings" by Gayle Boss. 

Buy a copy of this beautiful book for your own home library,   These short, daily reflections paint vivid, poetic images of familiar animals, paired with charming original wood-cuts, and will engage both children and adults. 

This book offers twenty-five portraits--one for each day of December leading up to Christmas--each depicting how wild animals of the northern hemisphere ingeniously adapt when darkness and cold descend.  In these animals, we see and hear as if for the first time the ancient wisdom of Advent:  
The dark is not an end but the way a new beginning comes.

Before or after reading each daily portrait yourself, you might  listen to Mother Sylvia read aloud the portion assigned for each day (see videos, below) allowing yourself to relax and enter more deeply into contemplation. (Note: the Intro video is ~13 minutes; subsequent chapter videos are ~5 minutes each.) 



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