Lent series and our book!

Greetings from my home to yours!

This morning is a drippy one in Virginia, as Christmas disappears into in the rear view mirror. However, my Christmas candles linger in the windows to fight back the chilly weather and dark of winter. 

As the days lengthen and warm up there a signs of spring. My hens, who are getting a little older and have taken a break from laying this winter, graced us with two eggs yesterday morning. This welcome surprise in the laying boxes reminded me that spring is coming.

The transition between winter and spring is also the time in the church calendar when we observe Lent. Sherah-Leigh and I have a series of reflections and practices ready for the weeks leading up to Easter. You can expect one reflection (Mondays) and one practice (Thursdays) weekly through Easter. One exception is that we will begin with a reflection and invitation into Lent on Ash Wednesday, this week, on February 14th.

As always, we appreciate you sharing Some Comfort and Joy with others! Please feel free to forward our posts to your friends and family.

We are also so excited to announce that we have written a book that will be released by Herald Press this September! Comfort and Joy: Readings and Practices for Advent is a devotional filled with poems, essays, reflections, recipes (thanks to many of you for your help with recipe testing!), practices and journal prompts. We are looking forward to telling you more about this book as we get closer to the release date.

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Thanks again to each of you that is part of our Some Comfort and Joy community! We look forward to walking through Lent and reflecting on life together.

-Gwen and Sherah-Leigh

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While Some Comfort and Joy began as a devotional series that followed the liturgical year, with reflections and practices from an Anabaptist-Mennonite perspective, we have enjoyed expanding our offerings. Your likes, shares and comments shape and inspire our work! Thank you for your support.