How many times have you tried to reduce the stress and hurry of Christmas by making Advent a more spiritual time? And how often have you found that your efforts to be more spiritual only intensified your stress as celebrating Advent became one more complicated item on your already long list of things to do? What if this year you found a devotional practice that offered more rest, more quiet, more room in your heart for the Christ child to be born? *Simply Wait: Cultivating Stillness in the Season of Advent** is a resource that individuals and small groups can use to help them focus, rest, and renew spiritually. For the four weeks of Advent, participants focus on a single word and a single, simple prayer practice that does not require extensive preparation or prior experience. Readings for each week offer creative reflections rooted in scripture and engaging questions that stimulate anticipation of a meaningful Advent and Christmas season. This year, instead of doing more, moving faster, and trying harder to cram it all in, do less scurrying and more reflecting; do less worrying and more connecting with the graceful and grace-filled wisdom of *Simply Wait.**