Glad and Golden Hours. This item is unavailable.Glad and Golden Hours

Inspiration for family traditions that blend food, faith, and festivity into your holiday season.

Filled with Ivester's golden prose and lavishly illustrated by Jennifer Trafton, this book is more than a cookbook or craft guide. It's a companion through Advent and Christmastide--an invitation to savor recipes, create traditions, and embrace the fullness of the season.

• Over 70 holiday recipes and craft activities to cook, bake, and create together
• More than 200 whimsical illustrations by artist Jennifer Trafton
• Devotions and reflections to deepen the spiritual meaning of Advent and Christmas
• A keepsake hardcover gift edition with a silk ribbon marker, perfect for giving or treasuring year after year

You will discover festive drinks, breakfasts, mains, sides, and desserts--ranging from homemade Danish Orange Rolls and St. Nicholas Soup with croutons to a standing rib roast and Margaret's Twelfth Night Cake--alongside handmade traditions such as how to make an Advent calendar, ivy garlands, gingerbread ornaments, and Christmas crackers.

"Feels like a candlelit room and a warm cup of tea and a deep conversation about God's hand at work in our lives." - Annie F. Downs, New York Times Bestselling author of That Sounds Fun

"Oh, how I savored the reading of Glad & Golden Hours." - Andi Ashworth, author of Real Love for Real Life, co-author of Why Everything That Doesn't Matter, Matters So Much

Tangible acts of feasting and festivity have filled Lanier Ivester's home for decades. Yet woven into that joy are the sorrows that have shaped her life--and her story reminds us that even in seasons of loss, we can still find wonder, hope, and glad and golden hours of celebration.

At its heart, Glad and Golden Hours embodies a rich theology of Creation--showing us what it means to live fully, even when life holds both grief and joy. It is a feast for the table and the soul, guiding you to anticipate the true Feast to come: the Kingship of Christ revealed in the seasons of Advent and Christmastide.

"This is not a manual or a how-to, or a glorified to-do list, but a companion, in the neighborliest sense of the word. The recipes and crafts in these pages, even the suggestions themselves, are merely that: suggestions to help you contemplate your own holiday with creativity and significance. It is, above all, an invitation, regardless of your age, marital status, or living situation, to experience Christmas as a place of rest--not in spite of, but in the very midst of the merriment of these glad and golden hours." - Lanier Ivester

Bring beauty, meaning, and joy into your Advent and Christmas celebrations this year with Glad & Golden Hours.

Lanier Ivester is a homemaker and writer in the beautiful state of Georgia, where she maintains a small farm with her husband, Philip, and an ever-expanding menagerie of cats, dogs, sheep, goats, chickens, ducks, and peacocks. She studied English Literature at the University of Oxford, and her special areas of interest include the intersection of Christianity and art, the sacramental nature of everyday life, and the truth-bearing witness of the imagination. For over a decade she has kept a web journal at lanierivester.com, and her work has also been featured on The Rabbit Room, Art House America, The Gospel Coalition, and The Cultivating Project, among others. She has lectured across the country on topics ranging from the meaning of home to the integration of faith and reason, and in both her writing and her speaking she seeks to honor the holy longings of a homesick world.

Jennifer Trafton is a children's book author, visual artist, creative writing teacher, editor, and speaker on imagination and the arts. Her first novel, The Rise and Fall of Mount Majestic, received starred reviews in Publishers Weekly and School Library Journal and was a nominee for Tennessee's Volunteer State Book Award and the National Homeschool Book Award. Her second novel, Henry and the Chalk Dragon, arose from her lifelong love of drawing and her personal quest for the courage to be an artist. The book received starred reviews in Booklist and School Library Journal, was nominated for a Cybils Award, and was named a runner-up for WORLD Magazine's Children's Book of the Year. Jennifer and her husband, author and playwright A. S. (Pete) Peterson, live in Nashville, Tennessee.