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I have not posted in a while. Between working on content for the new website and living in limbo about our departure for Jerusalem, I've been both distracted and a bit lazy. That's my excuse. Now, I'm excited about this new website. I hope you will take a few minutes...
Midsummer blessings and greetings to you. Just a couple of announcements. This coming Saturday, July 31, I will be leading a 1 1/2 hour Zoom Praying in Color Workshop called Praying in Color: Prayer for the Visual and Kinesthetic Learner. It is sponsored by the Jordan...
A Joyous Easter to All
I used the templates for Holy Wednesday through Holy Saturday with words from the Holy Week Lectionary readings Year B. Holy Wednesday Isaiah 50:4-9a Psalm 70 Hebrews 12:1-3 John 13:21-32 Holy/Maundy Thursday Exodus 12:1-4 (5-10), 11-14 Psalm 116...
My Lents are well-planned. I create a calendar template or two, choose a book of devotions or set of scripture readings, and set out on my daily, pious prayer-walk through the forty days of Lent. Lent is under my control, orderly. I am in charge. But NOT this year....
Here are three sets of templates for Holy Week. They are not intended as just "coloring" pages (unless that's how you want to use them) but as a format for corralling your thoughts, prayers, and reflections about the days of Holy Week. The first set is individual,...
NOTE: Lenten Calendar Templates for 2021 are on the Handouts Page & in the Blog Post for January 25. When my mother died a few decades ago, a friend said to me, "Not only did you lose your mother, but you have lost your mother's memories and perceptions of you,...
Using 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 in the allotted space with a...
The Feast of the Epiphany was January 6, but the Season of Epiphany continues. The "shining forth" of the Light of Christ deserves more than one day. It is an infinitely expanding event. Right now, I need as much of that Light as I can collect. So I pray, "Let me be a...
Here are my two Advent calendars for 2020. The calendar on the left incorporates the words of #AdventWord--a ministry of Virginia Theological Seminary. The one on the right contains my prayers for others. Advent was full of illness and death for friends and family....