The Art of Living in Season: A Year of Reflections for Everyday Saints
InterVarsity Press, April 2024

In the land of my ancestors, the little clay saints of Provence (the santons, or "little saints") make their appearance in the season of Advent.

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They populate the crèche and on Christmas night, according to tradition, they undertake a pilgrimage: they journey together to Jesus and offer their humble gifts to him, gifts that come from their everyday vocations.

 

What if, once Christmas is over, the little saints stepped outside the manger with the grown Jesus and kept serving him with their everyday gifts while he accompanies them throughout the seasons ahead? The Art of Living in Season invites the reader to enter into a living parable of the Christian life by walking through the seasons (of nature, church, life) with the santons.

 

There is more. What if this pilgrimage made each season a new Advent: a continual opportunity to wait for Christ and welcome him? And what if I, an everyday saint, joined the santons in this pilgrimage, and became one of them right here, in my place and season? What would I give Him?

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Join the pilgrimage as I explore this possibility in my book, through spiritual reflections, personal anecdotes, seasonal illustrations, and traditional stories from the land of the santons.

 

                                         “Whether you eat or drink or whatever you do, do all to the glory of God.”

                                                                                       1 Cor.10:31