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I woke up with a spontaneous idea and I want you to do this with me.

#OneWordAdvent.

#OneWordAdvent is my invitation this month to do a Thursday weekly one word prompt writing challenge for you — and with you for Advent — using the words: hope, peace, joy love.

Will you join me?

Here are two ways to participate:

1. I’ll have a Blog Link Up setup for this Thursday, 12/3.
   • At the end of my Thursday’s blog post, you’ll be able to click a button, type in your blog post url and submit it. Your blog post will show up pretty together.
   • Use the “Hope” #OneWordAdvent badge/image (found at the top of today’s blog post) and insert it into your blog post. It will let me know you’re participating & it will invite others to join too! (You can copy it onto your computer by right clicking it on your mouse and click “save image”)
   • Visit the blog post before yours to say hi and share a comment. Let’s savor each other’s journey.
2. Capture moments that speak “hope” to you. Share your Advent art or photos using hashtag #OneWordAdvent on Instagram, Facebook or Twitter.

This week’s 12/3/15 #OneWordAdvent Writing Prompt: HOPE

Experience a more soulful Christmas. ✒️ Pick up your pen and share your Advent journey. ? Share today’s post to invite a friend to journey together.

Let’s Begin Again. Let Christmas come.

One Word Advent has actually been a seed that’s been dropped on my heart earlier in the year, as I give myself permission to wander… to let it be prompted — not by expectations or by what others would want me to do — or by what I think would be a good “plan”. It’s just something I would enjoy — and would enjoy sharing together with you.

But, is that enough to begin something. Simply because it brings our hearts pleasure? I believe yes, because Christmas is Emmanuel — God with us.

How can we give the gift of our hearts to God — if we place it to the side? How can we enjoy an intimate moment with God when we keep ourselves boxed in our fears, guilt or expectations?

God whispers —

I am your hope. 

I am Emmauel. 

I am with you.

Begin again. 

Let Christmas come to you again.

Let me be with you. New. Rebirthed once more.

It’s hard to start something new, when you’ve been quiet for awhile. Don’t a lot of God’s whispers and invitations happen this way? He touches things in us that we’ve put to the side, that we’ve let slip between our fingers. Or so we think.

God captures them all. He holds them all in his heart. Because those inspirations are ones He’s placed on our hearts.

I haven’t hosted our Thursday blog link up Beloved Brews in months. I’ve been taking a break, soul searching on what the write for my next book afterFinding Spiritual Whitespace.

But, I woke up this morning and on my walk, it just wouldn’t leave me. Because that is what we do here on Faith Barista. We share the our moments — during the times that are most important to our hearts.

And we all need Advent. We all long to experience Advent — not just do Advent.

Express Your Heart

So, if you express you heart by writing, photos or art — I’d like to invite you to join me to experience a more soulful Christmas.

Join #OneWordAdvent —

a Thursday weekly writing and art prompt challenge this month — using the words: hope, peace, joy and love.

Pick up your pen, your brush, your (phone) camera.

Share your Advent journey together in community.  Swap some stories. Share your reflections on the word {hope} is speaking to you this year.

I can’t wait.

Thanks for sharing a wonderful Thanksgiving weekend with me. I think your comments, emails and notes of encouragement, might just be what the Holy Spirit used to water this seed of inspiration #OneWordAdvent to sprout today.

With kindred affection… Bonnie

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How is God calling you to go, wander and experience with him?

Will you #OneWordAdvent with me?

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For Christmas gifts, order a copy of my book for your friends. I’d cherish the opportunity to share the message of finding rest with your loved ones: Finding Spiritual Whitespace: Awakening Your Soul to Rest.