Watch For The Light – Readings For Advent And Christmas – Book Review
This Christmas season, to prepare my heart for the celebration of the birth of Jesus Christ, I am reading a book called Watch For The Light – Readings For Advent And Christmas from Plough Publishing.
To classify this book as a devotional is not entirely accurate. This book features 45 diverse writers whose works include essays, devotionals and poems that have been arranged from November 24 through January 7 to take us on a spiritual and literary journey through the Advent, Christmas, and Epiphany seasons.
A few of the notable authors featured in Watch For The Light include Henri Nouwen, Sylvia Plath, Madeline L’Engle, Phillip Yancy, C.S. Lewis, John Donne, and Martin Luther. As you can see from this sampling, this book features quite a mingling of the minds!
One of the things that I like about Watch For The Light is that it reminds us that the coming of Christmas means something different to each of us. We each hold a special part of the Christmas story near and dear to us – and in this book, each writer shares an invaluable insight into what the coming of Christ means.
If you are looking for a seasonal book that will help you to explore what it means to prepare for Christmas – and, at times, perhaps stretch, challenge, or clarify your thoughts – than add Watch For The Light to your holiday reading list.
I rate this book 5 out of 5 stars.
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It sounds like a great seasonal read. Thanks for the recommendation, and thanks for linking up with spread the linky 🙂
Thanks for hosting and for stopping by Nish – glad you’ve taken over! 🙂
This book sounds so good!
It’s a wonderful book to prepare your heart for the season! 🙂
Wow, what a great compilation of authors. I’d like to read this! Thanks for sharing with Small Victories Sunday Linkup!
Wow! This book looks fantastic, and I love that it includes Epiphany rather than stopping at Christmas! Thanks for sharing this at Booknificent Thursday! Hope your Advent/countdown to Christmas is going well!
Tina
I stopped in from Book Musing Monday. This sounds like a wonderful book to turn our hearts toward Christ in this season of his first advent. Thanks so much for sharing it. Grace and peace….
This book sounds like a feast! Thanks for sharing your review!
Thanks for posting. This is one I haven’t seen.
I’m going to check this one out!
I know you’ll enjoy this book Michele! 🙂