Expectancy, Not Expectation in Prayer

by | May 11, 2015 | Praying in Color

When I began praying in color, I did it out of desperation. I was praying for almost a dozen people  in my life with terrible cancers and I was left wordless in prayer. Doodling, sitting dumbstruck, and just releasing my friends into God’s care were the only...

First Sunday of Advent Expectations

by | Dec 1, 2014 | Praying in Color

Today is the first of the four Sundays of Advent. My expectations of these four weeks called Advent are probably at least as unreasonable as the ones I have about Christmas. I expect Advent to be a time of lush spiritual preparation for the “coming” of...