by Sybil Macbeth | Apr 17, 2022 | Praying in Color
I stepped into our cozy, dorm-room shower this morning anticipating its usual, wonderful solar-hot water. By the time I was head-to-toe wet, it soaked into my brain: “This water is COLD!” Then I started my familiar rant: “Nothing is predictable here....
by Sybil Macbeth | Apr 3, 2022 | Praying in Color
Lent almost always surprises me. I choose the book/s I’ll read and the Lenten calendar template I’ll use with the book. I have the forty days well-planned; I am in control. Then I am spun around and led in a different direction. I often describe my...
by Sybil Macbeth | Feb 8, 2022 | Praying in Color
The pressure to send or not send Valentine’s Day cards looms heavy for some of us. As a terrible gift giver, I am not a fan of the romantic weight of the holiday. If someone doesn’t send me a card, does that mean they don’t love me? If I don’t...
by Sybil Macbeth | Feb 2, 2022 | Praying in Color
And Jesus, full of the Holy Spirit, returned from the Jordan and was led by the Spirit in the wilderness for forty days, where for forty days he was tempted by the devil. (Luke 4, 1-2 NRSV) After almost four months in Jerusalem and the land of the Holy One, my idea...
by Sybil Macbeth | Jan 10, 2022 | Praying in Color
Folk tales from traditions around the world posit that God created the Earth on the back of Mother Turtle. Why would God choose a turtle as the earth-bearer? (And who knew there were turtles before the world was even created?) The resumé of turtles makes them better...
by Sybil Macbeth | Dec 25, 2021 | Praying in Color
Lights from Manger Square in Bethlehem and St. George’s Cathedral in Jerusalem. Icon of Birth from St. George Chapel in the Greek Orthodox Church of the Nativity, Bethlehem Madonna in the Greek Orthodox Church of the Nativity, Bethlehem Cave (grotto) and...
