Celebrating Advent :: Tsh Oxenreider [Ep 305]

<p><span style= "font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, Oxygen, Ubuntu, Cantarell, 'Open Sans', 'Helvetica Neue', sans-serif;"> As a mom of three small children, author and podcaster Tsh Oxenreider found Christmas a bit overwhelming and as Charlie Brown would say, “too commercial.” Year after year she found herself dreading the season and looking for simple ways to refocus the holiday on the things that mattered most. </span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">After living overseas for a year with her family and switching to a more liturgical church, Tsh found the centuries old observance of Advent to be the perfect way to slow down the crazy season of Christmas. She joins me to introduce Advent if you are new to it and to talk about the</span> <a href="https://tshoxenreider.com/advent"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">beautiful new Advent guide</span></a> <span style="font-weight: 400;">she created.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“This is for us, this is to reset our hearts and our focus to that which is the true reason we celebrate Christmas. So the thing I love about celebrating Advent in our culture is that it feels pretty counter-cultural in a world that both is focused on the gifts and is focused on the consumption parts of Christmas.”</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">If you’ve ever wanted to know more about the liturgical practice of Advent, this is the show for you! Tsh shares a lot of practicals and perspectives about why celebrating this separate season can help us prepare for both the celebration of Jesus’ birth and the eventual time when Christ will, one day, make all things new.</span></p> <h2><span style="font-weight: 400;">Connect with Tsh: </span></h2> <ul> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">Website: </span> <a href= "https://tshoxenreider.com"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">https://tshoxenreider.com</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> </span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style= "font-weig