Christmas is a joyful spiritual celebration for our family. My hope was that this year we could start a tradition of pausing each day in the anticipation of Christmas and be reminded of who Christ is and was to us. I chose 24 names/attributes of God and assigned one to each day. There are many more wonderful names and attributes one could use, but these are the ones I chose this year!
A Brief Hanging Star Advent Calendar How-To:
I cut 24 stars out of a cardboard envelope and painted them all using acrylic paints in gold, silver, red, and green. I wrote the numbers on one side and the name of the other, poked holes into the stars, and used beige cotton scrap yarn to tie them to a stick we found in the forest. I tied a length of that same yarn to each end of the stick to hang the calendar from a nail on our wall, but before hanging I wrapped the yarn with wintry foliage and festive dried clementines. My tutorial on how to dry citrus can be found here.
The Names/Attributes I Used
Logos, King (of Kings), Mighty God, Bread of life, Son of the Most High, Jesus, Redeemer, Good Shepard, Lamb of God, Friend, Healer, Savior, Alpha and Omega, Christ the Lord, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace, Lord of Lords, Deliverer, Immanuel, El Roi, Messiah, The Way, The Truth and the Life, The Greatest Gift
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