For the first nine days of Advent I have really enjoyed combining praying in color with #AdventWord. Everyday #AdventWord (adventword.org) sends an email with a new word and a reflection on the word. The chosen words are based on the Advent lectionary from year C....
Lent 2025 Calendar Templates now available!
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More Advent Calendar Ideas
Besides drawing an Advent Calendar using the templates for this year (see the bottom of this post), here are several other ideas for creating a daily visual Advent calendar. Draw your own calendar. My first praying in color Advent calendars were drawn one-day-at-a...
#AdventWord and Advent Calendars
"#AdventWord is a global, online Advent calendar. Each day from the first Sunday of Advent through Christmas Day, #AdventWord offers meditations and images to inspire and connect individuals and a worldwide community of believers to the themes of Advent. AdventWord is...
Thanksgiving Day & Gratitude Gobbler
A Happy and SereneThanksgiving. This is the beginning of my gobbler gratitude list. I'll work on it more today and throughout the weekend. You can still download the template. Click on the links below the image. You can read more and look at more examples from...
Gratitude Gobbler 2018
“Let us come before God with thanksgiving and extol him with music and song.” (Psalm 95:2 NIV) For a family activity on Thanksgiving Day or during the holiday weekend, hand out colored pencils, markers, and a turkey template. In the spaces within the turkey and on...
Advent Calendar Templates for 2018
If I had to choose just one Advent discipline or activity, it would be a doodled Advent calendar. If you have never done this before, it is a simple, daily but satisfying spiritual practice. This kind of calendar is different from the Advent calendars you buy in a...
Autumn Events and New Praying in Color
New Edition of Praying in Color™ in 2019 My hiatus from blogging is not part of some sabbatical plan. I have been putting most of my writing energy into a 2nd edition of Praying in Color. The original Praying in Color: Drawing a New Path to God, published in 2007, is...
Prayer Beads, Prayer Read
I was three or four years old when I met my first set of prayer beads. The buff-colored rosary beads coiled cobra-like on the nightstand of my best friend and next door playmate Marian. In the daytime the plastic rosary was not much to look at: a string of plain...
Martin Luther King, Jr. and The Still Small Voice
Today Memphis bustles with almost 100,000 visitors who are commemorating the 50th anniversary of the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr. While I was a self-focused and distracted college freshman in Virginia, many of my friends and acquaintances lived here in...
Prayers of Lent to Easter Alleluia
Alleluia, Christ is Risen! The Lord is Risen indeed. Alleluia!