by Sybil Macbeth | Jan 18, 2015 | Praying in Color
If I were at home in Memphis, Tennessee, my Christmas tree would have morphed into an Epiphany bush on January 6. Stars and lights twinkling on the tree in the middle of my living room brighten up the long darkness of the winter nights and remind me of the wacky...
by Sybil Macbeth | Jan 6, 2015 | Praying in Color
Brightest and best of the stars of the morning, Dawn on our darkness, and lend us thine aid; Star of the East, the horizon adorning, Guide where our Infant Redeemer is laid.* Epiphany: the twelfth day after Christmas, the arrival of the Magi at the manger, the...
by Sybil Macbeth | Jan 5, 2015 | Praying in Color
Today is the last day of Christmas and it seems there should be some appropriate greeting or words of benediction for this day. I’m trying some greetings on: “Godspeed Christmas” or “Merry Twelfth Night” or “Spread the Light of...
by Sybil Macbeth | Jan 4, 2015 | Praying in Color
It’s still Christmas and many signs of its enduring presence are visible: Church with poinsettias Kings and camels approaching the mantel manger Winter blooms White Lights Manger awaiting the arrival of the magi Matthew 2: 1-8 1 In the time of King Herod, after...
