I’ve used a Filofax style planner for a few years now. I’m a bit on/off with actually writing in it (or even looking in it, let’s be honest). But when things are busy, and when I want to get things done, taking time at the weekend to properly look at the week ahead makes things easier. Like the quest for the perfect purse or handbag, the search for the perfect planner sheet is something that I always come back to. And this year I’m trying these Passion Planner sheets.
Our friend Song has the proper Passion Planner, which is a beautiful piece of stationery. But I already have a lovely planner cover from Undercover UK (lime green, to cheer me up and made in the Black Country, to cheer me even more) so I am using that. It doesn’t have the proper planner’s annual or monthly overviews nor the reflection question, but I’m going to start with planning weeks and hopefully work up to bigger things. Or just use my Google calendar for the overview. And work something out for the reflecting part. Possibly.
Anyway. Look! See! Pretty planner! Next week it’s all back to school and swimming and football and piano lessons and meetings and busyness and whatnot. And I shall be attempting to the Do the Next Thing, one thing at a time.
So today I offer you some counting resources to arm yourself with for when Advent begins a week on Saturday (or Sunday if you’re being liturgical about it). I don’t mean counting your funds for Christmas shopping, nor the hours available for mincepie making, but counting down to Christmas in a way which helps to focus our minds on Jesus. This year I am aiming for an Advent of anticipating Christ, rather than one of anticipating shopping and panicking about whether the Christmas cards will make it out of the Vicarage before New Year’s Day. I am also an optimist.
The Vicar's Wife 