Baby Pink

Luke 2:11 

...to you is born this day 

in the city of David 

a Savior, who is the Messiah, the Lord. 

Happy birthday, Jesus!

You shed your kingly glory

to take on the form of a slave...

beginning from the first moment 

of your human life

all for our sake...

Thank you for your lavish love.

May we love as you love

and protect the helpless,

advocate for the voiceless...

This we pray in your mighty name. Amen.

Passion

Thank you, Lord, for making each of us unique.

Grant us the grace to always embrace

our own weirdness, 

our own passion,

our own bliss,

in order to bear the fruit

you designed us to bear. 

Amen.

Pink and Lavender

Pink symbolizes love and romance; 

lavender symbolizes grace, femininity and elegance...

[http://www.incredibleart.org/lessons/middle/color2.htm]

Just want to say thank you, Lord,

for the beautiful, quirky, strong and gentle ladies 

you have put in my life.

Thank you for making me a woman.

May each girl embrace her identity as a woman of worth...

May we all continue growing into women of worship.

Amen.

Red, atbp.

Prayer for the Most Neglected Souls*

Jesus, for the sake of the agony that you endured

during your fear of death

at the Garden of Gethsemane,

at the Scourging,

at the Crowning with thorns,

on the Way to Calvary,

at your Crucifixion and death, 

have mercy on the souls in Purgatory,

especially on those souls 

who are completely forgotten.

Deliver them from their bitter pains,

call them finally to yourself

and embrace them

in your arms in Heaven.

Amen.

* Devotion to the Holy Souls in Purgatory, p. 90.

Orange and Purple

Ecc 3:1 For everything there is a season, 

and a time for every matter under heaven... 

In Tagaytay, it is a time to bloom... 

everywhere plants are in full array. 

For me, it is a time to step back...

a time for silence and study, 

and a time to sing and worship;

a time to disconnect from the cold,

a time to reconnect to the warm;

a time for uncertainty,

yet also a time of profound peace.

Lord, I don't know the details of the plans

you have for me, but I know 

they are plans to prosper 

and not to harm me, 

plans to give me a future full of hope.

Grant me the grace to follow your lead. 

Guide me to the right decisions. 

Bless the work of my hands. 

This I ask in Jesus' name. Amen.

Cherubim Red

Psalm 99:1 

The LORD is king; let the peoples tremble! 

He sits enthroned upon the cherubim; let the earth quake!

Lord, God of hosts,

we worship you alone.

Have mercy on your people.

Let not the earth tremble anymore. 

Provide food and water to those in need.

Comfort those who have lost loved ones.

Grant eternal rest unto those who passed.

Build up what has been devastated. 

This we ask in Jesus' name. Amen.

Brown. Green.

All things bright and beautiful,

All creatures great and small,

All things wise and wonderful,

The Lord God made them all.

- Cecil F. Alexander

Color of Rain

The soul would have no rainbow

if the eyes had no tears...

John Vance Cheney

Lord, thank you for 
being the light 
that makes rainbows 
out of my tears.

Yellow

Look at the flowers

Look how they bloom for you

And all the things you do

Yeah, they were all yellow

[slightly modified Coldplay lyrics]

Thank you, Lord, for all creation that blooms for you...

and all the things that you do...

White

Matthew 6:28-29 

And why do you worry about clothing? 

Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow; they neither toil nor spin, 

yet I tell you, even Solomon in all his glory was not clothed like one of these.

Black, Speckled, Semi-Transparent

I am black and beautiful,

O daughters of Jerusalem... 

Song of Solomon 1:5

Scarlet/ Snow

Isaiah 1:18 

... though your sins are like scarlet, they shall be like snow; though they are red like crimson, they shall become like wool.

Pink

Song of Solomon 2:12 

The flowers appear on the earth, the time of pruning the vines has come, and the song of the dove is heard in our land. (NAB)

The flowers appear on the earth, the time of singing has come, and the voice of the turtledove is heard in our land. (NRSV)

*One feature of Hebrew poetry is Janus parallelism where certain words can be read in more than one way. This explains the different translations of the same text above.

Red

All creatures of our God and king

Lift up your voice and with us sing

Alleluiah! Alleluiah!

Green

Praise the Lord... 

Wild animals and all cattle, creeping things and flying birds!

Lavender

Up close...

To paraphrase Psalm 19: 

The flowers declare the glory of God!

 Trees along SVD road ...