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Many Christmas carols exalt the nighttime: Oh Holy Night, Silent Night, O, Little Town of Bethlehem, Away in a Manger, While Shepherds Watched Their Flocks by Night…. Christmas carols are probably the reason I love nighttime and darkness. When the nights start to...
"Be still and know that I am God." (Psalm 46:10) "Wait for the Lord; be strong and take heart." (Psalm 27:14) In the midst of preparations and decorations for Christmas, some small and simple practices remind me that Advent is now; Christmas is still twenty-five days...
Celebrate Thanksgiving with a visual gratitude list. A visual gratitude list can be an individual or family Thanksgiving Day activity--between dinner and dessert or after the meal. Give everyone at your Thanksgiving meal a coloring page/template. Provide pens and...
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...
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...
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...
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 what about the...
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 season of...
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 Presbyterian...
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 and Naples. I...