The Womb of Advent sounds like such a rich and mesmerizing book, Lynn. I’ve not heard anyone take that approach! I hope you’re doing well. Happy New Year, friend!

You’re welcome, Donna. Talking books is always fun to me. Wishing you many blessings in 2023!

I don’t know how I have missed hearing about The Grief Recovery Handbook all these years. I found it really helpful to have such practical exercises. I haven’t written the letters yet, but I did make a Loss History Timeline.

I finished Learning Humility just today! It was a little rambly to me for a Richard Foster book, but I’ve been a big fan of his work for a long time, so I enjoyed getting to peek into his journal (that’s what it felt like).

And yes, I love Pádraig Ó Tuama’s accent too! 🙂 I think I first heard him on Krista Tippett’s podcast On Being. I’m excited to hear him in person in 2 weeks along with Ilia Delio!

“The Womb of Advent” by Mark Francisco Bozzuti-Jones.
He has 4 weeks of elegant reflections using various Scriptures and pulls his reader in to the positiveness of ‘waiting’. The most creative and lovely part of this eloquent book is that each day, he shares with his reader, what is going on ‘in Mary’s womb’ based on what we know of a child’s development those last 4 weeks in utero.

At the time he wrote this (or took notes to write this book) he and his wife were expecting their first child – a high risk pregnancy that had her on bedrest. So they knew well how ‘their child’ was developing but for his book, he tells us how the Christ Child was developing, awaiting his birth into our world.

I loved this book!