Lent 2025–Calendar Templates

Lent 2025–Calendar Templates

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...
Gruntled Gobblers of Gratitude

Gruntled Gobblers of Gratitude

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...
Advent Calendar Templates 2024

Advent Calendar Templates 2024

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...
Upcoming Retreats and Workshops

Upcoming Retreats and Workshops

Here are are four upcoming Praying in Color events. Please pass on this information to people who might be interested. Thank you.   1) Saturday, October 26, 2024 Sharpsville United Methodist, Sharpsville, Indiana 2) Saturday, November 2, 2024 St. Andrew’s...
Hurricane Hope

Hurricane Hope

Hurricane Milton is bearing down on the Gulf Coast of Florida. Milton has been described as a Monster—its size, power, strength, speed…. No one knows for sure where or when it will make landfall–sometime late Wednesday night, somewhere between Tampa...