Stir up Sunday (Prepare for Advent)

Today is Stir Up Sunday, the last Sunday before Advent. This is the traditional day in Britain to make the Christmas pudding, and set it aside for Christmas Day so the flavors have a month to develop.

But I'm not making a pudding this year, for several reasons that all make me sad.

Instead, I plan to use this day to center myself for a holiday that will be different: I want to stir up my feelings about tradition, expectation, love, and family, and come to terms with a low key quarantine holiday season. 

And I want to prepare myself for an advent that will be perhaps a little sad, but in many ways deep and satisfying. Advent is a time of expectant waiting - for grace, and the joy of the returning Light - and this week I will actively prepare to wait.

Agenda for today:
1- Journal queries

2- Prayer
3- Collect greens

4- Plan a Christmas card