by Sybil Macbeth | Dec 17, 2014 | Praying in Color
Thanks to friend and performance artist Sharon Pavelda for letting me share her Advent poem. Advent is Scary for Me and the Virgin Mary Silent night, holy night, Christmas Cards make it look “just right:” Calm Madonna, sleeping child, Even the animals are reverent,...
by Sybil Macbeth | Dec 16, 2014 | Praying in Color
One of the best and worst things about air travel is being trapped in a seat for several hours. I often accomplish more in the time in those cramped quarters than I do at home in a whole day. On a flight back home on the first Sunday of Advent I started to doodle just...
by Sybil Macbeth | Dec 15, 2014 | Praying in Color
One of the ways to really learn the stories of the people of Scripture is to implant them in your body and recite them with your voice. My friend Roy DeLeon, author of Praying With the Body: Bringing the Psalms to Life, graphic designer, yoga teacher, and joyful...
by Sybil Macbeth | Dec 14, 2014 | Praying in Color
Signs of Advent’s passage and Christmas’s swift approach are everywhere in my house: The Paperwhite narcissus bulbs I planted just over two weeks ago have 10-inch tall stems. Several blossoms are about to pop open. The spaces on the Advent calendars are...
by Sybil Macbeth | Dec 12, 2014 | Praying in Color
My kitchen counters are a 3-D diary of my daily life. Receipts, unread newsletters and articles, an empty glasses case (glasses MIA), suntan lotion, an almost used-up toothpaste tube, sticky notes, unsticky notes, magazines, scrunchies, crumbs…litter every...
