by Sybil Macbeth | Dec 7, 2011 | Praying in Color
The words on the calendar are Advent words–words from Isaiah, Matthew, Luke, Revelation… and words from traditional prayers of the Church. An eleven-year old friend noticed the word “kindle” on the tree. “Oh, a Kindle!” she said....
by Sybil Macbeth | Dec 5, 2011 | Praying in Color
Andy’s Week 1 Advent calendar contains simple black-pen doodles. He includes prayer intercessions, meditations on words, and things he’s thinking about, I guess…. I noticed the “Guy ties” entry on Friday. We attended a Christmas outreach...
by Sybil Macbeth | Nov 25, 2011 | Praying in Color
My friend Cindy O. and I have been praying/drawing Advent calendars for several years. Below is a collage of some of our past calendars. We mark each day of the four weeks before Christmas with a prayer for a person or a meditation on a word. Words like” watch,...
by Sybil Macbeth | Dec 26, 2010 | Praying in Color
Here is my final Advent calendar for 2010. Drawing each day (well, most days) helped me to focus on the season. It gave me a disciplined way to pray for people and with words associated with Advent. Now we are on the Day 2 of Christmas. Maybe I should draw a Twelve...
by Sybil Macbeth | Dec 14, 2010 | Praying in Color
This year’s Advent calendar is a combination of a stained glass window and a Jesse Tree. The Jesse Tree is a way to track the lineage of Jesus through the story of God in the Hebrew Scriptures. Isaiah 11:1 (NIV) says, “A shoot will come up from the stump...
