#advent 2022

[szanne7000]

❄️🎄❄️ Master Advent 2022 Post ❄️🎄❄️

This is a pictorial recap with direct download links (please see the linked pdf file) to all the Guest Creators for the Simpearls 2022 Advent. Unfortunately, there appears to have been a snafu with the site.

I want to thank everyone one of the fabulous Guest Creators - each and every one of you, again & again, for being a participating! 🥰

Happy Advent, Merry Christmas, & Happy New Year!

Please download the pdf with all the links below:

MEGA

SFS

In order of Days Gifts were Given:

@ddaeng-sims @sundays-sims @cowbuild @sims4luxury

@simspirationbuilds @tilly-tiger @sooky88 @blueteas

@buildingdiva Ruby Red @sims41ife @m-o-d--e-r-n

@pinkbox-anye @tububsubub @pixelvibes @syboubou

@winner-9 @kerriganhouse @miljamaison @leosims4

@simplistic-sims4

🤗🥰🤗

[catholic-quotes]

[aborddelimpala]

Advent Calendar 2022 | 10/24

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[livehorsesartpage]

The prompt is "Nutcracker"

I just realized yesterday that Tchaikovsky's Nutcracker ballet has its 130 anniversary on December 18, but oh well. Anyways, on December 14 was the 6th anniversary of Ballerina/Leap! so I couldn't resist to draw my favorite baby turtledoves together, and of course Victor is the Nutcracker here. 😉 That clumsy little inventor hides a charming yet awkward prince inside. 😊

Happy 6th anniversary to these awesome characters! 😃

Made with pencil colors and markers at December 15 of 2022.

[shadandrews]

The last of the advent calendar! 

[vw-tb0]

“Of all the types of waiting, the waiting of pregnancy is like the waiting we do for God”-Wendy M. Wright, The Vigil: Keeping Watch in the Season of Christ’s Coming. Qtd. in Living the Christian Year by Bobby Gross, page 37 (Downers Grove: InterVarsity Press, 2009)

“All around us we observe a pregnant creation. The difficult times of pain throughout the world are simply birth pangs. But it’s not only around us. It’s within us. The Spirit of God is arousing us within. We’re also feeling the birth pangs. These sterile and barren bodies of ours are yearning for full deliverance. That is why waiting does not diminish us, any more than waiting diminishes a pregnant mother. We are enlarged in the waiting. We, of course, don’t see what is enlarging us. But the longer we wait, the larger we become, and the more joyful our expectancy.” Romans 8:22-25, paraphrased by Eugene Peterson, qtd. in Bobby Gross, Living the Christian Year (Downer’s Grove: InterVarsity Press, 2009)

[historian-in-pearls]

Although I will be observing Advent--there's so much wonder in the waiting--I'm already listening to Christmas music. 2022 has, for so many reasons, been the hardest year of my life, the one that nearly broke me. More than ever, this year, I'm drawn to hope and to joy.

"A thrill of hope/the weary world rejoices"--yes. Yes, it does.

[roses-red-and-pink]

Calling all my Christians (especially Catholic) who celebrate Advent: how do I use the candles?

For advent I usually just read a scripture every day stating from Genesis and following the story of the scriptures to the birth of Jesus. But I really want to do the candles this year. What do the colours mean, and do I read specific scriptures when I light them? I heard rumours you don’t light any candles the first week? I know I light one more every week until Christmas but not much more beyond that.

Can anyone tell me what to do or point me to a comprehensive resource? Thanks!! 💕💕