If you’re anything like me, you are pretty jazzed this time of the year! It’s the Season of Advent on the Church Calendar.

Advent is the time when we anticipate the coming of our LORD. We look back, remembering His coming to us as a baby long ago; and we look forward to His coming again – any day!

My son Simon’s kindergarten and first grade teacher, Joanna Gellermann, like her mother before her, had an annual tradition of giving her students an Advent Bag. The class parents were awestruck!

Twenty-five tiny gifts in a small paper bag were actually object lessons for the Bible passages tucked inside! Kids and their families got to unwrap the season with a reason, one day at a time.

This Advent series is dedicated to my Sister in Christ, Joanna Gellermann.

So many ways to praise our LORD!

Psalm 150 (NIV)

Praise the Lord

Praise God in his sanctuary;
    praise Him in his mighty heavens.
Praise Him for his acts of power;
    praise Him for his surpassing greatness.
Praise Him with the sounding of the trumpet,
    praise Him with the harp and lyre,
praise Him with timbrel and dancing,
    praise Him with the strings and pipe,
praise Him with the clash of cymbals,
    praise Him with resounding cymbals.

Let everything that has breath praise the Lord.

Praise the Lord.

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Please come back tomorrow, for another installment of: ADVENT — Counting the Days to Christmas!

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