Most Wonderful Time of the Year

Next week marks the beginning of the “Most Wonderful Time of the Year” – Advent.  I wanted to do something that would make Peace, Love, and Pear Jelly Beans different from other blogs during the advent season.  I love the concept of the advent wreath and wanted to explore those topics.

Quite honestly the monotone readings of what the prophets had written forever ago mixed with some “applicable” understanding of the Gospels read by a small child in a choppy, squeaky voice in front of the church doesn’t quite capture the wonder of the season for me.  

I want this blog series (to be release each Sunday and on Christmas Eve) to be a raw exploration of each candle of the advent wreath with personal applications I do in my daily life.  I want this series to be a place for worship, discussion (leave comments!), and reflection for this “most wonderful time of the year.”

To give you a preview of what is to come:

Week 1 || One Thing To start off the Advent season, “One Thing” is an exploration of the difference between natural hope and Biblical hope in the One Thing.

Week 2 || Journey to Bethlehem The Advent series will continue with understanding how the journey Mary and Joseph took to Bethlehem foreshadowed to the Upper Room through the Bread of Life.

Week 3 || Choosing Joy The second half of the Advent series is a continuation of November’s post “Eucharisteo” and how chara joy and the joy talked about by the angels becomes a choice.

Week 4 || My Love Affair  For the final Sunday of Advent, the series strives to understand how to make Christianity less of a theory and more of a love affair, as G.K. Chesterton would put it.

Christmas Eve || Christ in the Middle  The series concludes with a short summary of the action plan laid out by the previous four weeks and their relationship to Christ being centered in our lives.

I hope you'll read along this Advent Season!