The Feast of Pentecost–Today

The Feast of Pentecost–Today

Pentecost, one of my favorite celebrations in the Church year, is vibrant, sensory, exciting, colorful, unpredictable, wild…. Yesterday was an unanticipated Pentecost Preparation Day. I woke up with a little bird, as it were, pecking at my mind for me to get up...
Prayer for Sheltering and Memorial Day

Prayer for Sheltering and Memorial Day

High on my gratitude list is the wonderful variety of people I have “met,” either in person or online, because of Praying in Color. These are people I never would have known otherwise. We have met through my website, via email or social media, or at real...
COVID Confessions 4–Prayer and Webinar

COVID Confessions 4–Prayer and Webinar

Confession: I hope you all will join me on this Zoom webinar on Wednesday, May 20 (2 days from now) sponsored by Paraclete Press. Thoughtful and funny, Jana Riess, author of Flunking Sainthood and The Twible, will interview me about Praying in Color–where the...
COVID Confessions 3–Familiarity

COVID Confessions 3–Familiarity

Confession: When I first got married, my mother thought it was her duty to pass on some wisdom and admonitions from her own experience of marriage. Her favorite quote was: “Familiarity breeds contempt.”  As a somewhat prim and proper Victorian lady, her...
COVID Confessions 2

COVID Confessions 2

CONFESSIONS Things done and left undone, things said or not said, acts committed or not committed…in this unfamiliar world of staying at home OBSERVATIONS Things I’ve noticed and observed in this unfamiliar world of staying at home Confession: I’m...