Christmas in 3 ActsSample

Experience

If you are able, take two short walks today, one with a full and heavy backpack (it can be filled with bags of sugar, flour, or shoes), and a second walk with the same backpack empty. How did the difference feel? How does this experience mirror how you live?

Practice

How could you create an Advent practice that enacts the promise of these verses (28-30)? Could you take the time to write out your tensions and anxieties on separate pieces of paper and then throw out or burn them? Or perhaps write those feelings on your hands and then wash them off?

Question

How am I going to surrender my anxieties, tragedies, and circumstances so I might experience the fullness of God’s rest this season?

Prayer

I choose to surrender all my circumstances to You, even when I’m experiencing tragedy.