Animal Devotionals (Gayle Boss)

Image: Painted Turtle by David G Klein, in All Creation Waits by Gayle Boss

All Creation Waits by Gayle Bos

All Creation Waits is an extraordinary book to read during the season of Advent, the time of quiet waiting Christians mark before celebrating the Incarnation, Christmas. Author Gayle Boss tells story of one animal’s winter waiting each day. In Wild Hope, Boss brings us stories for Lent—Spring in the Northern Hemisphere—and each of these stories is about an animal facing extinction. During the season of waiting for Resurrection, Easter, these stories draw on the hope of faith that defies human logic. We hope and pray for the story of each creature Boss describes, searching for hope in a time of mass extinctions. These books tie these profound Christian seasonal traditions to the natural world, and the more-than-human world. Beautiful woodcuts by David G. Klein accompany each entry.

Wild Hope by Gayle Boss

Gayle Boss told AllCreation:

When we're still, shedding our many concerns if only for a moment, the world can become transparent. It needs no preacher. There's the Divine, shining through every created thing. The artists of the world preserve those moments and carry us back to them when fear dulls our hearts and blurs our vision. They help us remember what we once saw and long to see again. - Author Gayle Boss

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This piece is part of our series, Inspired by Beauty.

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