by Sybil Macbeth | Mar 21, 2024 | Praying in Color
My usual Lent is a 46-day challenge of overambitious reading of Scripture and devotionals, attempts at behavior changes, acts of kindness, giving up favorite things, and doodling on several calendars. I can never quite settle on a single path or discipline. My...
by Sybil Macbeth | Jan 29, 2024 | Praying in Color
Praying the Journey to Easter on a Calendar Template Using a calendar template is a simple, daily, and playful (but serious) practice for praying our way through the forty days of Lent. Each day, choose a word to ponder or a person to pray for. Write the word or name...
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 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 25, 2021 | Praying in Color
Using a calendar template Using a calendar template is a simple, daily, and playful but serious practice for praying our way through the forty days of 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...