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Sacred Seasons: A Family Guide to Center Your Year Around Jesus by Danielle Hitchen, Stephen Crotts
5.0
"Do you keep a planner or a Google calendar? Do you worship on Sundays? Do you celebrate birthdays? You are a timekeeper," Hitchen reminds us.
I am so looking forward to working this wonderful book into our family's year! I love the rhythm and reminder of the church calendar for my own devotions, but I've mostly only brought my daughter into Advent and Holy Week. This is a beautiful, thorough, family-centered celebration of reminders of God's faithfulness.
I absolutely love this image: "Visually, the liturgical year is represented by a circle. However, a three-dimensional spiral would be more accurate—a reminder that though we observe the same seasons year after year, God invites us to experience them afresh, drawing us ever upward to Himself."
In the book each season places us in God's story, talks about spiritual discipline, shows how we can share communally, and includes a liturgy. As appropriate there are recipes, saints days, and a true focus on remembering as a family. I highly recommend this beautiful book!
"In remembering—making present—God’s past and his future, we are transformed by the Holy Spirit into walking, talking intersections of time and eternity: embodiments of the gospel."
{I was given an ARC}
I am so looking forward to working this wonderful book into our family's year! I love the rhythm and reminder of the church calendar for my own devotions, but I've mostly only brought my daughter into Advent and Holy Week. This is a beautiful, thorough, family-centered celebration of reminders of God's faithfulness.
I absolutely love this image: "Visually, the liturgical year is represented by a circle. However, a three-dimensional spiral would be more accurate—a reminder that though we observe the same seasons year after year, God invites us to experience them afresh, drawing us ever upward to Himself."
In the book each season places us in God's story, talks about spiritual discipline, shows how we can share communally, and includes a liturgy. As appropriate there are recipes, saints days, and a true focus on remembering as a family. I highly recommend this beautiful book!
"In remembering—making present—God’s past and his future, we are transformed by the Holy Spirit into walking, talking intersections of time and eternity: embodiments of the gospel."
{I was given an ARC}