Emmanuel: An Invitation to Prepare Him Room at Christmas and Always

Devotional | Ruth Chou Simons | Harvest House Publishers

This is a beautiful book. It was the beauty of her watercolours that first drew me in. But the thoughtfulness and relevance of her writing is what keeps me reading. I really appreciated how she starts the season and book with the importance of setting our hearts in the right posture, ‘…from expectations to expectant’. Divided into four weeks with six devotionals each, the daily devotions mostly follow a pattern of Bible passage, her thoughts, a couple of short questions to ponder, a recommended song, a prayer and a last quote, thought or Scripture. A beautiful, warm, relatable, readable devotional. Available to borrow from the Booth College of Mission Library. (Reviewed by Rachelle de Laat)