Accompanied by Angels: Poems of the Incarnation by Luci Shaw | Just a lovely collection of poems around advent. Very thoughtful, good, accessible poetry about Christ.

Orbiting Jupiter by Gary D. Schmidt | This book impacted me like no other book last year. Like, flat-out bawling and thinking about Christmas from a different angle.

The Lion, the Witch & the Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis | As you might have heard, there’s been 100 years of winter in Narnia– “Always winter but never Christmas”– except now Aslan is on the move.

Bonus (maybe?): This thing I wrote a million years ago about Henri Nouwen’s concept of “actively waiting”