Advent
Treasure the season with notes of:
Frankincense & Myrrh | Fire Embers | Evergreen | Cinnamon
Advent is a season that balances the elements of remembrance and anticipation. Though the season was not originally attached to Christmas, it has come to be situated in the church calendar and celebrated this way for many years.
Frankincense and myrrh combine with notes of crackling fire and hints of evergreen and cinnamon to make up this candle. The goal is to help usher in a ritual season of remembrance, anticipation and as Mary did… ponder and treasure. “But Mary treasured up all these things, pondering them in her heart.” (Luke 2:19). This Advent candle is not attached to Sundays (as in church gatherings) or any particular moments of the season, but to be enjoyed all season long as you ponder and treasure the coming of Christ.
8 oz. Soy/Coconut Wax blend with a crackling wood wick
A Liturgy for the Lighting of the Advent Candle
As I mark this advent season may this candle serve as a symbol to remember that you came, just as you promised, yet nothing like we expected.
Let this be a moment to remember the ways you have visited me before, coming into the very midst of my life, my mess, my needs, my unexpected, and even my unnamed. May I take a moment to notice where you may be visiting me now, in my consolations and my desolations.
May the lighting of this candle bridge the gap when it feels easier to decorate the house than it does to prepare you room in the home of my frenzied heart. You are here. Here we are. May the fragrance of warm nostalgia mixed with sacred celebration remind me of the ways you were and are good news of great joy. Restore our shared joy.
For the moments joy is hard to muster, may the lighting of this candle be an invitation to remember the coming of light when hope wearied and darkness weighed heavy. For even the dark is as light to you. I invite your presence into the lonely, desolate, dark places of my soul.
Whether in the midst of great hope or hopelessness, may I anticipate your coming again. Even now, visit our lives, visit our spaces, visit our broken places. I make room for you. Hear my groanings and receive my confessions.
I anticipate the day you are coming again, to stay. Dissolving the destruction of disconnection, you will fill us with the joy, beauty and goodness of your loving presence in the home you have restored for us, restored for me. Lord, help me see you breaking forth even now. Come, visit your people.
Treasure the season with notes of:
Frankincense & Myrrh | Fire Embers | Evergreen | Cinnamon
Advent is a season that balances the elements of remembrance and anticipation. Though the season was not originally attached to Christmas, it has come to be situated in the church calendar and celebrated this way for many years.
Frankincense and myrrh combine with notes of crackling fire and hints of evergreen and cinnamon to make up this candle. The goal is to help usher in a ritual season of remembrance, anticipation and as Mary did… ponder and treasure. “But Mary treasured up all these things, pondering them in her heart.” (Luke 2:19). This Advent candle is not attached to Sundays (as in church gatherings) or any particular moments of the season, but to be enjoyed all season long as you ponder and treasure the coming of Christ.
8 oz. Soy/Coconut Wax blend with a crackling wood wick
A Liturgy for the Lighting of the Advent Candle
As I mark this advent season may this candle serve as a symbol to remember that you came, just as you promised, yet nothing like we expected.
Let this be a moment to remember the ways you have visited me before, coming into the very midst of my life, my mess, my needs, my unexpected, and even my unnamed. May I take a moment to notice where you may be visiting me now, in my consolations and my desolations.
May the lighting of this candle bridge the gap when it feels easier to decorate the house than it does to prepare you room in the home of my frenzied heart. You are here. Here we are. May the fragrance of warm nostalgia mixed with sacred celebration remind me of the ways you were and are good news of great joy. Restore our shared joy.
For the moments joy is hard to muster, may the lighting of this candle be an invitation to remember the coming of light when hope wearied and darkness weighed heavy. For even the dark is as light to you. I invite your presence into the lonely, desolate, dark places of my soul.
Whether in the midst of great hope or hopelessness, may I anticipate your coming again. Even now, visit our lives, visit our spaces, visit our broken places. I make room for you. Hear my groanings and receive my confessions.
I anticipate the day you are coming again, to stay. Dissolving the destruction of disconnection, you will fill us with the joy, beauty and goodness of your loving presence in the home you have restored for us, restored for me. Lord, help me see you breaking forth even now. Come, visit your people.
Treasure the season with notes of:
Frankincense & Myrrh | Fire Embers | Evergreen | Cinnamon
Advent is a season that balances the elements of remembrance and anticipation. Though the season was not originally attached to Christmas, it has come to be situated in the church calendar and celebrated this way for many years.
Frankincense and myrrh combine with notes of crackling fire and hints of evergreen and cinnamon to make up this candle. The goal is to help usher in a ritual season of remembrance, anticipation and as Mary did… ponder and treasure. “But Mary treasured up all these things, pondering them in her heart.” (Luke 2:19). This Advent candle is not attached to Sundays (as in church gatherings) or any particular moments of the season, but to be enjoyed all season long as you ponder and treasure the coming of Christ.
8 oz. Soy/Coconut Wax blend with a crackling wood wick
A Liturgy for the Lighting of the Advent Candle
As I mark this advent season may this candle serve as a symbol to remember that you came, just as you promised, yet nothing like we expected.
Let this be a moment to remember the ways you have visited me before, coming into the very midst of my life, my mess, my needs, my unexpected, and even my unnamed. May I take a moment to notice where you may be visiting me now, in my consolations and my desolations.
May the lighting of this candle bridge the gap when it feels easier to decorate the house than it does to prepare you room in the home of my frenzied heart. You are here. Here we are. May the fragrance of warm nostalgia mixed with sacred celebration remind me of the ways you were and are good news of great joy. Restore our shared joy.
For the moments joy is hard to muster, may the lighting of this candle be an invitation to remember the coming of light when hope wearied and darkness weighed heavy. For even the dark is as light to you. I invite your presence into the lonely, desolate, dark places of my soul.
Whether in the midst of great hope or hopelessness, may I anticipate your coming again. Even now, visit our lives, visit our spaces, visit our broken places. I make room for you. Hear my groanings and receive my confessions.
I anticipate the day you are coming again, to stay. Dissolving the destruction of disconnection, you will fill us with the joy, beauty and goodness of your loving presence in the home you have restored for us, restored for me. Lord, help me see you breaking forth even now. Come, visit your people.