by Sybil Macbeth | Feb 26, 2010 | Praying in Color
I’m taking a course through the Memphis School of Servant Leadership called Fear, Courage and Christian Discipleship. The textbook is Following Jesus in A Culture of Fear by Scott Bader-Saye. During the first chapter alone, my head got tired from so many...
by Sybil Macbeth | Feb 24, 2010 | Praying in Color
My dad introduced me to stamp collecting when I was about eight. He had a couple of navy-blue, hard-cover albums with crunchy-sounding, yellowed cellophane paper separating the pages. Colorful little rectangles were affixed to pages with headings like Mauritania and...
by Sybil Macbeth | Feb 23, 2010 | Praying in Color
I have a scratchy throat, teary eyes, drippy nose, and an inordinate need to sleep. I’m an impatient patient. Being sick feels like a violation of the Puritan work ethic. How can I take the time to recuperate when there is so much to be done? But today I...
by Sybil Macbeth | Feb 19, 2010 | Praying in Color
Here is a sample of the template I’ve used for the past few years to pray during Lent. Each day I pray for a person or pray a short passage or word from Scripture. As the prayers accumulate day-by-day I can look back and continue to pray for the people from the...
by Sybil Macbeth | Feb 18, 2010 | Praying in Color
I have compiled my list of Do’s and Don’ts for the 40 days of Lent. 1. Don’t eat desserts or snacks. 2. Do pray for someone or something everyday using the Lenten calendar template or some other drawing format. 3. Don’t play computer Scrabble....
