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Advent Calendar: December 3
This year’s Cottage Advent calendar is an audio countdown.
Each day (except for Sundays) until Christmas, you’ll receive a short audio clip related to the weekly theme. Most will be from A Beautiful Year. But not all! There will be other surprises along the way.
Listen to today’s window in the audio above.
And scroll to the very bottom of this post for a special Advent SURPRISE!
Today’s excerpt is from “Wrinkly Time” in A Beautiful Year.
On Thursday, paid subscribers will receive (as usual) the Advent calendar. In a separate email, you’ll also receive a video reflection on the week’s theme: The Mystery of Time.
Be on the lookout for both emails tomorrow.
The first three Advent windows on December 1, 2, and 3 are open to the entire Cottage community — for both free and paid subscribers. Beginning on December 4 and running through the rest of the month, the calendar will be for paid subscribers only.
If you are a free subscriber, now is a great time to sign up. For a short time, new yearly subscriptions are the discounted to $40. You can also sign up for $5 a month. Click the button below for information and options.
If you’d like to receive the Advent offerings and aren’t able to afford it, please reach out to us via email by clicking this link. No one is ever turned away for lack of funds.
AN ADVENT SURPRISE
Day1 features an Advent sermon of mine this week, “The Fullness of Time.” It is currently available online in both written and audio formats, on their website, and through major podcast apps. It will also be broadcast nationally this weekend.
You can read or listen now. The theme is perfectly aligned with our Advent reflections — and I’d love to hear what you think! CLICK HERE to listen, for the broadcast schedule, and additional options.
There’s also an extra-special behind the scenes conversation about the sermon, The Secret Behind A Beautiful Year: A Different Way to Tell Time.
Please share it with your friends.
And clergy-friends — hope it helps your work this week!
It slowly dawned on me that biblical time was less like an Advent calendar of countdown and more like an Advent wreath of verdant reprise. Not so much ticking off the days toward an event as a spiral of anticipatory wisdom. We live in what is not yet.
Perhaps the “fullness of time” is less of a line and more a nimbus, a halo. Somehow time and light meet — in the stars, through the cosmos in the words of the Gospel of John, and visible in candles of the wreath….
— from “The Fullness of Time”
This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit dianabutlerbass.substack.com/subscribe
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By Diana Butler BassThis year’s Cottage Advent calendar is an audio countdown.
Each day (except for Sundays) until Christmas, you’ll receive a short audio clip related to the weekly theme. Most will be from A Beautiful Year. But not all! There will be other surprises along the way.
Listen to today’s window in the audio above.
And scroll to the very bottom of this post for a special Advent SURPRISE!
Today’s excerpt is from “Wrinkly Time” in A Beautiful Year.
On Thursday, paid subscribers will receive (as usual) the Advent calendar. In a separate email, you’ll also receive a video reflection on the week’s theme: The Mystery of Time.
Be on the lookout for both emails tomorrow.
The first three Advent windows on December 1, 2, and 3 are open to the entire Cottage community — for both free and paid subscribers. Beginning on December 4 and running through the rest of the month, the calendar will be for paid subscribers only.
If you are a free subscriber, now is a great time to sign up. For a short time, new yearly subscriptions are the discounted to $40. You can also sign up for $5 a month. Click the button below for information and options.
If you’d like to receive the Advent offerings and aren’t able to afford it, please reach out to us via email by clicking this link. No one is ever turned away for lack of funds.
AN ADVENT SURPRISE
Day1 features an Advent sermon of mine this week, “The Fullness of Time.” It is currently available online in both written and audio formats, on their website, and through major podcast apps. It will also be broadcast nationally this weekend.
You can read or listen now. The theme is perfectly aligned with our Advent reflections — and I’d love to hear what you think! CLICK HERE to listen, for the broadcast schedule, and additional options.
There’s also an extra-special behind the scenes conversation about the sermon, The Secret Behind A Beautiful Year: A Different Way to Tell Time.
Please share it with your friends.
And clergy-friends — hope it helps your work this week!
It slowly dawned on me that biblical time was less like an Advent calendar of countdown and more like an Advent wreath of verdant reprise. Not so much ticking off the days toward an event as a spiral of anticipatory wisdom. We live in what is not yet.
Perhaps the “fullness of time” is less of a line and more a nimbus, a halo. Somehow time and light meet — in the stars, through the cosmos in the words of the Gospel of John, and visible in candles of the wreath….
— from “The Fullness of Time”
This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit dianabutlerbass.substack.com/subscribe