Advent & Christmas
Jan’s distinctive work invites us to enter into the seasons of Advent and Christmas with all of who we are, that we might know the presence of love that meets us in everything we carry. These are a few of the books that people tell us they have found especially meaningful for these seasons—and other times of the year, too!
Night Visions: Searching the Shadows of Advent and Christmas
Jan’s book Night Visions: Searching the Shadows of Advent and Christmas is a favorite! We are always moved to hear from readers who return to it each year and who share it as a gift for others. Jan's original artwork, reflections, poetry, and prayers accompany the reader from the beginning of Advent through Epiphany Day, inviting us to encounter the God who dwells in darkness as well as in daylight.
Circle of Grace: A Book of Blessings for the Seasons
This beautiful collection begins with blessings for Advent, Christmas, and Epiphany. Called “breathtaking” by the Chicago Tribune, this book illuminates the gifts that each season of the sacred year holds for us.
Within the struggle, joy, pain, and delight that attend our life, there is an invisible circle of grace that enfolds and encompasses us in every moment. Blessings help us to perceive this circle of grace, to find our place of belonging within it, and to receive the strength the circle holds for us. —from the Introduction
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How the Stars Get in Your Bones: A Book of Blessings
In this new book, Jan turns toward the hard things that each of us knows: the grief, loss, fear, and weariness that we live with. She invites us to perceive what makes its home here, too: the joy, solace, grace, and, most of all, the love that moves through everything, illuminating and transforming what seems most hidden or hopeless.
A blessing has the ability to enter into our pain, not to dismiss or gloss over it but to name it, and to name also the love that connects us and holds us: the love that is continually working for our wholeheartedness. —from the Introduction
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The Cure for Sorrow: A Book of Blessings for Times of Grief
From her own loss, Jan offers a particular gift of solace for those experiencing loss in this season or any time of year. These blessings invite us to know the tenacity of hope and to recognize the enduring presence of love that, as Jan writes, is “sorrow’s most lasting cure.”
A blessing meets us in the place of our deepest loss. In that place, it gives us a glimpse of wholeness and claims that wholeness here and now. —from the Introduction
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Women’s Christmas Retreat
Celebrated on Epiphany (January 6) in Ireland and elsewhere, Women's Christmas offers an opportunity at the end of the holiday season to celebrate with friends and to gather ourselves before diving into the year ahead. Each year, in celebration of the day, Jan releases a new, downloadable retreat that’s perfect for using by yourself or with others. The new retreat will be available to download in early January at the Women’s Christmas page.