New Advent Tradition Update – Preparation

So, I am preparing for my new advent tradition (to begin November 29th) and my first task is to choose a devotional focus for the month – preparation for my time WITH God. I’ve been reading from Philip Yancey’s Grace Notes. It provides wonderful food for thought but I want to go to a deeper place so I resurrected a devotional that has a special place in my heart: Celtic Daily Prayer. I like that it has scripture readings and meditations for morning, noon and night every day along with written prayers. When life gets busy through the holiday season and my brain gets scrambled, it will be good to have written prayers to focus my conversations with God. So, when I turned to the December readings, I found the introduction reads “This month’s notes are on the subject of the call to a deeper life.” How cool is that? Deeper, always deeper.