text: Vol. 1, Issue 1: Entering into Advent
  Unto thee, O Lord, will I lift up my soul
  It’s such a privilege to enter a new Church year alongside you in this space - our inaugural issue of Signs + Seasons, filled with a whole spectrum of voices…each one wrestling beautifully with the Advent season, asking questions, sharing ideas & experiences.
  Inviting us to hold arrival and waiting in the same open hand, Advent trains us to see that this is the daily practice to which we’re called: to affirm that beauty exists alongside suffering, glimmers of completion among the incomplete, and that Christ is the loom through which all of these mysteries of the broken and the lovely are woven.
  In the posts below, you’ll find unique lenses for seeing Advent. We pray that these will help you enter into the season with fresh eyes!
  From the Editors
  - shares a beautiful tradition, adapted for sharing in community, that brings a unique flavor to Advent.
  - interviews about the impact of sacramental vision in our faith!
  - explores the beauty in the Advent holiday of Thomasmas.
  This beautiful piece by
  emphasizes Advent’s role as a pattern of worship in our lives.
  - of draws a poignant connection between imagination and the hope embedded in Advent.
  - walks us through farm life in December, and the hopefulness dotted throughout the month.
  - has a series of thoughtful Advent posts that dive into the music of the season, interwoven with beautiful reflections.
  takes us through the expectant-waiting of Advent, accompanied by her ethereal paintings.
  In a touching article,
  encounters both death and birth in Advent.
  - provides low-stress, doable activities for the season!
  Around the Web
  - shares her family’s experience of folding Advent into their home, and how that profoundly realigns their experience of Christmas.
  - dives into the history of the Old Hispanic Advent and dovetails it into the context of modern life.
  has created a gem of a book - as well as a web site - to help foster intention in the Christmas cycle.Jody also shares her poem “Ad Vent,” a comforting reminder of the intent in this season.
  - shares a beautiful reflection on the Orthodox tradition of fasting during the lead-up to the Nativity!
  Through the lens of Simeon’s testimony,
  crafts a poetic meditation on Advent.
  Kristin, Sara, & Dixie