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All Creation Waits - Gift Edition: The Advent Mystery of New Beginnings (An illustrated Advent devotional with 25 woodcut animal portraits)

All Creation Waits - Gift Edition: The Advent Mystery of New Beginnings (An illustrated Advent devotional with 25 woodcut animal portraits)

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All Creation Waits - Gift Edition: The Advent Mystery of New Beginnings (An illustrated Advent devotional with 25 woodcut animal portraits)

All Creation Waits - Gift Edition: The Advent Mystery of New Beginnings (An illustrated Advent devotional with 25 woodcut animal portraits)

Overview

A special gift edition of the bestselling book for Advent that reveals the wisdom and wonder of animals in the natural world  

In twenty-five portraits depicting how wild animals of the northern hemisphere ingeniously adapt when darkness and cold descend, we see and hear as if for the first time the ancient wisdom of Advent: The dark is not an end but the way a new beginning comes. 
 
Short, daily reflections capture in vivid detail the intricate and astonishing ways that familiar animals, from the honeybee to the porcupine, prepare for winter. Each day’s reading is paired with a charming original woodcut illustration. Anyone who feels tired of the consumer hype of “the holiday season” will be refreshed and awakened to the eternal truth the natural world reveals. 

This special gift edition: 


  • Includes a new introduction, with suggestions for how the book can be used during Advent  

  • Features inspirational thoughts from men and women through the ages – scientists, poets, and philosophers – who have found God through the beauty of creation 



  • Includes an Afterword, bringing readers up to date on what has happened since All Creation Waits was first published 

  • Invites quiet reflection during an often-chaotic holiday season 

  • Prompts meaningful conversations between children and adults, church groups, book clubs, creation care classes, and much more  
  • ​Is an ECPA 2023 Christmas Bestseller

 

Written with quiet passion and backed by extensive research, All Creation Waits has captured the minds and hearts of thousands of readers of all ages, from children to adults. Gayle Boss invites us to realize that God can be known in all creatures, and that paying attention to these creatures makes us more fully human, more fully ourselves. 

“The practice of Advent has always been about helping us to grasp the mystery of a new beginning out of what looks like death. Other-than-human creatures—sprung, like us, from the Source of Life—manifest this mystery without question or doubt. The more I’m with animals and the more I learn about them, the more I know they can be more than our companions on this planet. They can be our guides. They can be to us ‘a book about God...a word of God,’ the God who comes, even in the darkest season, to bring us a new beginning.” —from All Creation Waits 

Learn more about All Creation Waits and find free resources at AllCreationWaits.com

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781640608047
Publisher: Paraclete Press
Publication date: 10/18/2022
Edition description: New Edition, Enhanced, Special Edition, Enlarged/Expanded, Gift Edition
Pages: 192
Sales rank: 108,338
Product dimensions: 7.00(w) x 8.40(h) x 0.90(d)
Age Range: 8 - 18 Years

About the Author

Gayle Boss writes from West Michigan, where she was born and raised. Her lifelong love of animals and her immersion in spiritual texts and practices have melded in poems and essays that explore how relationships with animals specifically, and an attentive presence in the natural world generally, restore us to our deepest selves. Also the author of Wild Hope: Stories for Lent from the Vanishing, Gayle lives with her husband and Welsh corgi rescue.




David G. Klein is an award-winning graphic artist with illustrations for the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Random House, Tor Books, DC Comics, and Marvel. He is a graphic novelist, printmaker, engraving artist, and co-founder of Brooklyn-based Point Made Animation.

Table of Contents

Introduction ix

Note to the Reader xvii

Advent 1 Painted Turtle 1

Advent 2 Muskrat 7

Advent 3 Black Bear 13

Advent 4 Chickadee 19

Advent 5 Whitetail Deer 25

Advent 6 Honey Bee 31

Advent 7 Chipmunk 37

Advent 8 Cottontail 43

Advent 9 Common Loon 49

Advent 10 Wood Frog 55

Advent 11 Raccoon 61

Advent 12 Little Brown Bat 67

Advent 13 Opossum 73

Advent 14 Wild Turkey 79

Advent 15 Common Garter Snake 85

Advent 16 Woodchuck 91

Advent 17 Striped Skunk 97

Advent 18 Porcupine 103

Advent 19 Common Eastern Firefly 109

Advent 20 Meadow Vole 115

Advent 21 Eastern Fox Squirrel 121

Advent 22 Red Fox 127

Advent 23 Northern Cardinal 133

Advent 24 Lake Trout 139

Christmas Day Jesus, the Christ 145

Afterword 153

Acknowledgments 157

Quotation Sources 159

What People are Saying About This

From the Publisher

“Each of the beautiful creatures in this little book is a unique word of God, its own metaphor, all of them together drawing us to the One we all belong to. Adapting to the dark and cold they announce in twenty-four different ways the Good News of Advent: that through every dark door the creating Love of the universe waits.” —Richard Rohr, OFM

“A wonderfully refreshing sidelong book that makes you stop and think and ponder and consider and contemplate and see not only Advent but your entire blessed life with new eyes. Which seems to me to be the whole point of any generous honest art. Which All Creation Waits most certainly is.” —Brian Doyle, author of Chicago

“This book is a delight to savor and behold. I am someone who believes that the earth is our original monastery, and this worthy guide invites us intimately into the gifts of winter by exploring the rhythms of various birds, bees, and animals during the holy season of Advent. A lovely invitation into the quiet mysteries of darkness.” —Christine Valters Paintner, PhD, author of Illuminating the Way: Embracing the Wisdom of Monks and Mystics

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