New Series on Beauty & Creativity Starts Next Week

The seasons are changing as we flip the calendar pages and make our way forward toward Advent 2024. Before we arrive in the Christmas season there are weeks left in what is referred to in the church calendar as ordinary time. I love that name – ordinary time. It is what makes up most of our lives. Finding what is holy and beautiful in the midst of our everyday lives is a sacred calling.

Our new series focuses on beauty and wonder – how we are often surrounded by it and how it can transform our lives. Each week through the end of October we will be sharing a reflective piece (called a Comfort) and an invitation to practice (referred to as a Joy).

As you read the posts each week we hope you are encouraged in your relationship with God and in engagement with others around you.  May you find beauty as you take time to notice your surroundings.  

We welcome your feedback and invite you to respond to our blog entries in the comments each week or via email at some.comfortandjoy@gmail.com.  We are encouraged by each response and are thankful for all our readers!

Some Comfort and Joy was developed as a devotional resource that follows the rhythms and seasons of the liturgical year from an Anabaptist-Mennonite perspective.


Comfort & Joy: Readings and Practices for Advent is available now! With readings to walk through the Advent and Christmas season, the weekly offerings in Comfort and Joy include a variety of devotional meditations and invitations to spiritual practices that help us slow down and savor this sacred season.

Book Birthday!

For our mothers and grandmothers,
who passed on their faith and creativity despite adversity.
And for our families, who have shown us the sacred in the ordinary.

-Dedication from Comfort & JOy

Today is the day that Comfort and Joy: Reading & Practices for Advent officially enters the world!

We are so grateful for the kind and generous support of our Some Comfort and Joy community. It truly brings us such delight to share our words with the world. May the reflections and invitations within our labor of love bring much comfort and joy to all who receive it.

And, of course, we a still at work writing! Our free devotional series will continue here on the blog. Thank you for following along!

Last chance for the Pre-order give away!

Comfort & Joy: Readings & Practices for Advent official release date is tomorrow September 3rd. So if you would like to receive our preorder bonus today’s the day to order!

Just send us an email* with your order number and the name of the retailer to some.comfortandjoy@gmail.com and you will receive an email in reply with a blessing, a recipe card, and a breath prayer/coloring page. (all elements from our book – so a bit of a sneak peek!).  

Thank you for every preorder; we are grateful for each one. 

Starting tomorrow, September 3rd the release date, instead of preorders you can order the book and have it come right away!

*(Your email address won’t be used or sold for any purpose other than to send you your pre-order bonus.)

Preorder your copy today

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Book Box Winners

Congratulations to Jennifer Freed & Barb Ressler!

A special package is headed your way. We hope that the reflections and invitations of our book bring you much comfort and joy.

Thank you to our many friends and followers here within our Some Comfort and Joy community for entering the drawing. We are grateful for the many ways you support our work.

For those who have pre-ordered the book, be sure to send your order number to some.comfortandjoy@Gmail.com to receive your pre-order bonuses. There are just a few days left to get those goodies!

Book Launch…and you’re invited!

If you happen to be in the Harrisonburg, VA or Kidron, OH area at the beginning of September we’d love for you to join the party. In celebration of our book’s release, Sherah-Leigh and I are each hosting a book birthday party. You are invited to drop in and help us mark this occasion.

Our celebrations will include giveaways, refreshments, mingling with friends, and the opportunity to get your copy of Comfort and Joy: Readings & Practices for Advent signed.

The party at Sherah-Leigh’s house will be on September 3rd. The party and Gwen’s house will be on September 9th.

If you’d like to join in the fun please RSVP below and we’ll reply with the details.

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Thank you for your response. ✨

Interested in attending…(required)

Book box reminder!

Last call to register to win our book box give away! Please fill out in the information below by midnight on Saturday August 24th and you’ll be entered to win a book box containing:

  • 1 copy of Comfort & Joy: Readings & Practices for Advent (signed by the authors)
  • 1 pen and 1 pen clip
  • 1 teal and gold journal
  • 1 string of fairy lights
  • 1 Christmas ornament
  • 1 bookmark

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Thank you for your response. ✨

Book box give away -Thank you!

As another way to say thanks to you – all our readers – and just because it is so much fun to win stuff, we are celebrating the September 3rd release of our book with a book box give away (We are giving away two boxes, there will be two winners).

Just fill out the information below by midnight August 24th (we don’t sell it – we’ll just use it to contact you if you win) and you can enter to win a free book box. The book box will contain:

  • 1 copy of Comfort & Joy: Readings & Practices for Advent (signed by the authors)
  • 1 pen and pen clip
  • 1 teal and gold journal
  • 1 string of fairy lights
  • 1 Christmas ornament

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Thank you for your response. ✨

Thank you!

Thank you for following along with our series on Friendship. We hope that it brought you some comfort and joy in this season.

Next month we will be starting a new series focused around beauty. Using a variety of scripture passages, we have reflections and practices that will tune your attention towards the gifts of goodness that surround us and enrich our lives.

We are so thankful for your support of our work in the world. Your likes, comments and shares are all wonderful ways you can help our words connect with others.

And, if you have enjoyed our summer series, be sure to order our forthcoming Advent book. The bonuses will only be available for a few more weeks, so if you have yet to pre-order, please consider doing so now!

Pre-Order Now

To access your gift, simply send us an email at some.comfortandjoy@gmail.com with the retailer and order number in the subject line.

A Blessing for Friendship

Life is hard

but

Blessed 

are the friends

who share in your joy

and sit with you in pain

Blessed 

are the friends

who carry you 

and hold onto hope

Blessed 

are the friends

who believe the best about you

and wish the best for you

May you be blessed 

to be

and to be with

such friends

We are delighted to share with you a preorder bonus created in collaboration with and offered by our publisher, Herald Press. Just send us an email at some.comfortandjoy@gmail.com with your order number and the name of the retailer, and you will receive an email in reply with a blessing, a recipe card, and a breath prayer/coloring page. (Your email address won’t be used or sold for any other purpose.)

Pre-Order Now

Comfort & Joy: Readings and Practices for Advent

Filled with reflections, poetry, blessings, practices and recipes Comfort & Joy is a wonderful resource for those wanting to engage the Christmas season with intention.

Preorder Now

As part of our 12 Days of Christmas celebration, we are delighted to share with you a preorder bonus created in collaboration with and offered by our publisher, Herald Press. Just send us an email at some.comfortandjoy@gmail.com with your order number and the name of the retailer and you will receive an email in reply with a blessing, a recipe card, and a breath prayer/coloring page. (Your email address won’t be used or sold for any other purpose.)