by Sybil Macbeth | Dec 25, 2015 | Praying in Color
Christmas begins today and lasts through January 5. Keep your tree up, your lights lit, your candles burning, the magi approaching the manger…. Celebrate. “For unto us a child is born…and his name shall be called...
by Sybil Macbeth | Dec 24, 2015 | Praying in Color
Advent for me has been both a countup and a countdown to Christmas. Countup: My two Advent calendars are a colorful accumulation of prayers and ponderings. On one I started out with 26 blank trees and prayed for someone each day with doodles and color. The other...
by Sybil Macbeth | Dec 15, 2015 | Praying in Color
3-Sentence Stories: Writing Short is Fun for All Ages I wrote this post for the website Building Faith, a ministry of Virginia Theological Seminary to offer practical resources for the Christian formation of people of all ages. It was first published on December 11th,...
by Sybil Macbeth | Dec 14, 2015 | Praying in Color
Advent gives me the chance to reencounter the lush, dynamic vocabulary of the Christian tradition. The words on my round-sticker calendar are like old friends who are familiar yet always new. Like words in Scripture they are not stagnant. They reveal something new...
by Sybil Macbeth | Dec 11, 2015 | Praying in Color
I detest the word “cute.” Maybe it’s because that word has been used on me more than a few times. When I was a kid “cute” had the politically incorrect definition of “short, fat, and bow-legged.” I was probably at least two...
