by Sybil Macbeth | May 31, 2010 | Praying in Color
My mother and father are both deceased. For years they asked my husband and me the question, “Should we be buried or cremated and where?” We talked about the options. But it was not a question we could answer for them. Sometimes, however, I wish I had....
by Sybil Macbeth | May 25, 2010 | Praying in Color
The Bible mentions olives, olive trees, olive branches, olive oil, and the Mount of Olives in at least thirty books. Olives were part of the economic system and the food chain. A good crop meant prosperity; a bad crop was disaster. Analogies using olives abound in the...
by Sybil Macbeth | May 19, 2010 | Praying in Color
“Meet my better half.” How often I hear this statement when I’m introduced to someone’s spouse or partner. It’s usually intended as a compliment, a sweet comment about the esteem the person has for their loved one. A couple of days ago I...
by Sybil Macbeth | May 17, 2010 | Praying in Color
I’m tired of being a careless slob. A month ago I damaged a brand new orange purse by tossing a permanent black pen into it. The ink seeped through the lining and left a quarter-sized, unbudgeable blob on the leather. The same kind of black pen left a...
by Sybil Macbeth | May 9, 2010 | Praying in Color
My friend Cindy often creates a drawing in response to a word suggested each week on a website called Illustration Friday. The word for this week is “fearless.” Here is Cindy’s drawing and the words she wrote to accompany it on her blog Mostly...
