by Sybil Macbeth | Dec 25, 2014 | Praying in Color
“For to us a child is born, to us a son is given, and the government will be on his shoulders. And he will be called Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace.” (Isaiah 9:6 NIV) Or in Eugene Peterson’s The...
by Sybil Macbeth | Dec 23, 2014 | Praying in Color
I wrote this post five years ago today for the Purpose Driven Connection. If my mother were alive today she would be 101. Style I’ve done some cooking for groups this week–an intimate meal of stew for six last Friday and a staff party of chicken lasagna for...
by Sybil Macbeth | Dec 22, 2014 | Praying in Color
With a household of visiting and resident grown sons, a granddaughter, and a couple of adult girlfriends, the temptation to make random comments on everyone’s life and behavior is seductive. “Why don’t you take Clara to the zoo?” Why does she...
by Sybil Macbeth | Dec 21, 2014 | Praying in Color
The weeks of Advent are far-spent, only four more days until Christmas. I have loved this Advent as I usually do, but it also has been too short. There are three meditation books I would still like to read and I have squandered my sitting-still/prayer time. But the...
by Sybil Macbeth | Dec 19, 2014 | Praying in Color
In early January my husband and I will “move” to Colorado. He will be interim pastor at an Episcopal church for about a year. The church will provide furnished housing, so we will take only clothes, a milk foamer, my big coffee mug, and some of our...
