Welcome to the first season of Good News and Gratitude, a podcast from the United Thank Offering. In this episode, our host, Erin Jean, offers an Advent guided meditation, as a gift to each of you for the holidays. You can use paper and pen to journal through the reflection, or you can just listen and respond in the spaces of time offered.   

The poem shared is “Advent Calendar” by Rowan Williams. 

Meditation Music by Dana Music from Pixabay 

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The Rev. Erin Jean Warde (she/her) is an Episcopal priest, spiritual director, recovery coach, and writer. She is the author of Sober Spirituality: The Joy of a Mindful Relationship with Alcohol. She offers a course, Discerning Sobriety, which helps participants bring spiritual practices and mindfulness into their relationship with alcohol. Check out her offerings around coaching, spiritual direction, and more at http://www.erinjeanwarde.com. You can explore her Substack, Gather the Inklings, which includes weekly posts and a community. In her free time, you can find her watching comedy, thrift or vintage shopping, making new friends, and hanging out with her cats in Nashville.