Good Dirt: Advent, Christmastide & Epiphany

by Lacy Finn Borgo, Ben Barczi (With)

A year-long adventure for families desiring to grow in Christ and set the rhythm of their lives by the Seasons of the Church. Good Dirt combines kid-friendly seasonal activities, daily devotionals, and Bible readings. Each day the family is rooted in Christ through a reading from one of the Gospels. Adults and the little ones in their homes alike will learn how to “Till,” “Plant,” “Water,” and “Weed” their souls, living out spiritual formation within the most influential social context anyone is ever born the family. In this first volume, Advent, Christmastide & Epiphany, seasonal activities and readings guide families through a celebration of Jesus’ incarnation, introducing the twelve classical spiritual disciplines as tools to work the soil of the soul. Join other families on the journey at www.gooddirtfamilies.com

Genres: Spirituality, Christmas

148 pages, Paperback

First published October 21, 2013

About the author

Lacy Finn Borgo teaches and provides spiritual direction for the Renovaré Institute, for the DMin. in Spiritual Direction at Fuller Theological Seminary and at Portland Seminary. Lacy provides spiritual direction for adults through GoodDirtMinistries.org and provides spiritual direction for children at Haven House. She is the author of Life with God for Children: A Curriculum for the Spiritual Formation of Children and Good Dirt: A Devotional for the Spiritual Formation of Families, both can be found on her website. Her forthcoming book Spiritual Conversations with Children: Listening to God Together will be released in March 2020 through IVP.

Reviews

[Laura (Book Scrounger) · Rating 4 out of 5]

This was a good devotional for Advent through Shrove Tuesday, and shared a lot of good ideas for building family traditions around important church holidays. I appreciate that there are several different ideas but we are encouraged to *not* attempt to do everything each year and burn out. So I might be able to make use of this next year as well. Each day has a short prayer, scripture reference, and ideas for application. We mostly just did the readings and prayers, but it was nice to have a structured way to work through some gospel readings. I appreciate that the topics focused on celebrating Jesus in one way or another and appeared fairly free of denominational slants.

[Esther B · Rating 5 out of 5]

We keep getting frustrated with the Christanese found in kids' devotionals. Finally, we heard about this (book 1/3) through the Renovaré group. It's a simple, faith exploration around the image of gardening (tilling, planting, watering, weeding) without rote religion. Theologically solid yet creative devotional to use as a family around the liturgical calendar. We're currently loving it.

[Gracewellworn · Rating 4 out of 5]

I am looking forward to reading this book again.