by Sybil Macbeth | Dec 21, 2021 | Praying in Color
Many Christmas carols exalt 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...
by Sybil Macbeth | Dec 19, 2021 | 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 Our goal in the wilderness was not forty days, nor a run-in with the devil....
by Sybil Macbeth | Oct 27, 2021 | Praying in Color
Using an Advent calendar is my favorite way to pay attention and pray during the four weeks of Advent. Unlike the store-bought versions, my calendars have no doors, just blank spaces for the days of Advent. Each day I fill one space with a prayer or meditation–...
by Sybil Macbeth | Dec 30, 2020 | Praying in Color
Here are my two Advent calendars for 2020. The calendar on the left incorporates the words of #AdventWord–a ministry of Virginia Theological Seminary. The one on the right contains my prayers for others. Advent was full of illness and death for friends and...
by Sybil Macbeth | Nov 24, 2020 | Praying in Color
Advent is a time of quiet contemplation and reflection but also a time of restless expectation and journey. My favorite practices, like Advent calendars and Advent wreaths, are ones that give me day-by-day opportunities for reflection but also activate my senses. They...
