Advent is here. This season is usually associated with cheesy, sentimental, and “happy” music. And yet, from the earliest days of the Church, there has also been embedded in this time a sense of meditation, tension, angst, and longing. Because, yes, the hero has stepped into the story; but he has left, and the story, in so many profound ways seems to have both been radically changed and yet not altered at all. We feel the darkness into which the infant God had to enter to taste our need. We let the light of his Coming pierce our darkened sight and feel the difficulty, even now, generations removed, of adjusting our eyes to the new reality around us. We celebrate his Coming, all while longing for it all the more.
In that spirit, this Advent Mixtape is designed to focus us on the more meditative and beautiful qualities of this season. Feel free to download and share it as you like, and may it bless you this Advent.
For Advent Meditation. | Click here to download or click play to stream
O Come, O Come Emmanuel – Bifrost Arts- Joy Joy!! – Devon Sproule & Paul Curreri
- In the Bleak Midwinter – Sarah Thompson & Stephen Dahmer
- O Come, O Come Emmanuel – Paul Burkhart
- We Three Kings – Hillsong
- God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen – Jars of Clay
- Silent Night – Dustine Kensrue
- Veiled in Darkness – Matt Bauer & Maeve
- What Child is This? – Sleeping at Last
- This is the Christ – Sandra McCracken
- Joy to the World – Paul Burkhart
- Angels We Have Heard on High – Future of Forestry
- O Come Let Us Adore Him – Joel Rakes
- Go Tell it on the Mountain – Dustin Kensrue
- O Holy Night – Sufjan Stevens
- Hark! The Herald Angels Sing – Hillsong
- Come Thou Long Expected Jesus/Joy to the World – Folk Angel
- Salvation is Created – Aimee Wilson
the long way home 