How does a weary world rejoice? Advent Devotional (1 Copy for Individual Use)
How does a weary world rejoice? Advent Devotional (1 Copy for Individual Use)
[This resource is one of many included in our How does a weary world rejoice? Advent Bundle]
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This devotional is designed to help you practice joy in a weary world. Each week offers art, reflections, poetry, and hymns. Journey through these pages at your own pace, beginning with the start of Advent and concluding with Baptism of the Lord Sunday. May each week offer you rhythms for rejoicing—through acknowledging your weariness, finding joy in connection, allowing yourself to be amazed, singing stories of hope, making room, returning to ritual, and remembering your belovedness.
THE DEVOTIONAL INCLUDES THIS WEEKLY RHYTHM:
Poetry prayer (by Rev. Sarah Are Speed)
Hymn (by Rev. Anna Strickland)
Biblical commentary on the weekly texts (by Rev. Cecelia D. Armstrong)
Art & reflection (on each of the weekly theme scriptures, by Rev. Lauren Wright Pittman, Rev. Lisle Gwynn Garrity, Hannah Garrity, and Rev. Nicolette Peñaranda)
DOWNLOAD INCLUDES (3 FILES):
Print-ready 30-page PDF of the devotional for printing in color on fifteen 8.5x11 pages (double-sided). Pages are arranged to fold in half to become an 8.5x5.5 booklet. The folded booklet has 60 individual pages.
Print-ready PDF of the devotional for printing in black & white (for those on a budget!).
A detailed Printing Guide with: instructions for printing the doc in Adobe Acrobat or Reader, common troubleshooting solutions, and links to additional formats of the devotional (including a large format version and an e-version for sharing the devo digitally).***
PRINTING INFO:
Print the devotional on fifteen 8.5x11 sheets to fold into an 8.5x5.5 booklet. Print the PDF under landscape orientation, double-sided, and choose "short edge to short edge," "flip to short edge," or "head to head" for the correct layout. The PDF is arranged so that you can easily fold the pages in half, staple or bind them down the middle, and voila! You have a beautiful devotional.
***Note: Want to share the devotional digitally? The printing guide includes a link to an e-reader version of the devotional booklet, which is accessible from computers and mobile devices. If you share this link with your congregation, please do so through a private email or password-protected webpage. Please help us protect our work by refraining from posting the link publicly on the web or on social media.
How does a weary world rejoice? Advent Devotional (2-25 Copies)