Praying Psalm 51 has been a great way for me to focus my Lenten attention and intention. I like honing in on one word a day. Many of the words convey my/our alienation from God: transgressions, iniquity, sin, evil, sentence, guilt, judgment, guilty, sinner.... Other...
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A Little Lenten Snooze
Last year I read a book called Brain Rules: 12 Principles for Surviving and Thriving at Work, Home, and School by John Medina. One of the twelve rules and twelve chapters in the book is about Sleep. People have all manner of valid and varied sleep patterns. Some are...
Lenten Calendar 2011
Lent seems to be the time when I try to cram in a year's worth of Bible study or prayer into 40 days. This year I decided to make my spiritual discipline small enough so I can "savor rather than stuff" as I described in my March 4th post. On Ash Wednesday I sat in...
A Prayer for Japan
"Do not withhold your mercy from [them], O LORD; may your love and your truth always protect [them]." Psalm 40:11
Lenten Calendar Template
If you are looking for a Lenten discipline, consider using a daily calendar template for the forty days. It's a simple, not very time-consuming discipline. Here are some ideas for ways to use the calendar: • Pray for a person each day. • Pray or meditate on a word of...
Shawarma and Scripture
A friend from another city is visiting us this weekend. One of his favorite culinary activities is to sample the shawarma (tender marinated lambs pieces) from restaurants all across the world. Before his arrival earlier this week, I decided to test the shawarma from a...
Prayer Anywhere
People say prayers anytime, anywhere--in the car, on the basketball court, under the bed, during a test, in dreams.... There's probably no time, circumstance, or place where prayers are not offered. With my drawn prayers, I now see any piece of paper as a invitation...
A Praying in Color Idea
A friend who uses Praying in Color in her prayers wrote me with a comment and question, "I seem to have the same artistic pattern of circles & squiggles. How do I break the mold...?" I have the same feeling sometimes. My drawings always seem to have amoebas,...
A Couple of Things
Ruth Leamy has written a nice blog post about Praying in Color on her website Read. Hear. See. Feel. She includes some of her drawings and the ways she has adapted praying in color to her prayer life--some good ideas. Ruth is the author of two books Praise Patterns:...
Sporadic Posts
My posting, I notice, is sporadic. When I wrote for the Purpose Driven Connection, I wrote 5-6 days every week. So why the scatter shot writing now? I propose a few explanations: # 1: Writing for the PDC included a contract; there was an obligation and a paycheck....