Lent 2025 Calendar Templates now available!
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With words from Scripture, hymns, and poems and some paper and markers, I can sometimes form prayers that just won't come with my own unfocused and scattered thoughts. Thanks be to God for the community of people whose words ground me when my own words fail me.
My inattention and distraction in prayer are at a heightened, high-alert, orange level. Praying in color came to me in a time of desperation and inattention when many friends and family members received diagnoses of cancer. I could not find the words for my prayers....
"Breath of God, fill me." "Indwelling Spirit, flow through me." "God of breath and air, cleanse him." "Loving God, permeate us." "Holy One, protect us." "Ruach, inhabit me." "Loving Healer, enfold us." These simple, one-liners are called breath prayers. Since the...
Today is the first day of Lent, Ash Wednesday. The pancakes from last night's suppers are gone and promises for Lenten disciplines have been made. There is still time to download a calendar template or two and follow a doable, visual path through Lent. Here are two...
Writing the Expanded and Enhanced version of Praying in Color: Drawing a New Path to God was a journey through the past dozen years of my prayer, spiritual, and vocational life. When I first started praying in color almost twenty years ago I was teaching calculus,...
Using a calendar template is a simple, daily prayer practice for making the 40-day journey through 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 pen and draw or doodle around it. Add color with...
A Joyous Christmas to all of you! I hope the entire season of the Nativity—Advent, Christmas, and Epiphany —will prepare you for a rich pilgrimage with Jesus in 2020. May a bright star guide you, may surprising words enrich you, may sojourners and strangers accompany...
I know there are wine pairings for just about every food on the planet. But here are some resources for word pairings to go along with the Advent Calendar Templates or the Advent Chains from my November 9 and November 25 blog posts 1) #AdventWord is is a global,...
"For the Beauty of the Earth, Sing, Oh Sing TodayOf the Skies and of our birth, Sing, Oh Sing, always.Nature, Human and Divine, all around us lies,Lord of All to Thee we raise grateful hymns of praise." These simple and beautiful words are from the "Canticle of...
Advent paper chains are like 3-D Advent calendars. They are a physical and visual way to mark the daily journey to Christmas. Paper chains are an easy and playful way for kids to learn Advent words. Pick simple words like "wait, prepare, watch, baby, dark...." For...