by Sybil Macbeth | Nov 17, 2025 | Praying in Color
Using an Advent calendar is one of my favorite ways to prepare and pray in the days leading up to Christmas. Unlike the store-bought versions, the calendars below have no doors, just blank spaces for each day of Advent. The blank spaces are a daily invitation to build...
by Sybil Macbeth | Jun 6, 2025 | Praying in Color
Acts 2:1-4 (NRSV) “When the day of Pentecost had come, they were all together in one place. And suddenly from heaven there came a sound like the rush of a violent wind, and it filled the entire house where they were sitting. Divided tongues, as of fire, appeared among...
by Sybil Macbeth | Feb 13, 2025 | Praying in Color
Praying the Journey to Easter on a Calendar Template Using a calendar template is a simple, daily, and playful (but serious) practice for praying our way through the forty days of Lent. Each day, choose a word to ponder or a person to pray for. Write the word or name...
by Sybil Macbeth | Nov 26, 2024 | Praying in Color
Two of my favorite words are disgruntled and gruntled. Both sound kind of grouchy and grumpy. Disgruntled is a familiar word. It means “displeased, discontented, unhappy, and annoyed.” I know how to do disgruntled. It’s the opposite of grateful. But...
by Sybil Macbeth | Nov 7, 2024 | Praying in Color
Advent is the season of preparation for God’s coming into the world as a flesh and blood person. Lush and heady words pepper our Advent vocabulary and theology—incarnation, anticipation, preparation, hope, despair, annunciation…. But Advent is also a...
