desiring God … listening, waiting
Tuesday, April 1, 2025 (click here to listen to or read today’s scriptures) Depends Jesus saw him lying there and said, “Do you want to be well?” My own answer would depend on the day. And after thirty-eight years of being crippled like this man, most days I imagine I’d just shrug as he...
Posted on Mar 31, 2025
Complete list of March 2025 Daily Devotions with links March 1 Getting late March 2 A shaken sieve March 3 Baby March 4 Baby is here! March 5 Visit March 6 Fast March 7 Gymnastics March 8 Come and take it March 9 Moses speaks March 10 Kiss me March 11 Forgive March 12 ...
Posted on Mar 31, 2025
Haiku for every day of March 2025 March 1 Cozy day at home Baby will be coming soon We’ll rest while we can March 2 Aki dropped boys off Andi, baby, six A.M. Time to do this thing March 3 On this day, baby’s born Young man named Finn Satoshi Another...
Monday, March 31, 2025 (click here to listen to or read today’s scriptures) Grand Central Your son will live. In 1978 there were no cell phones. I found a phone booth in Grand Central Station and called my parents in Lincoln, Illinois. Mom answered the phone. After telling me they were skipping my cousin’s...
Posted on Mar 30, 2025
Fourth Sunday of Lent, March 30, 2025 (click here to listen to or read today’s scriptures) Words from Flannery O’Connor I will bless the Lord at all times; his praise shall be ever in my mouth. Let my soul glory in the Lord. March 25 was the 100th birthday of a writer who said...
Saturday, March 29, 2025 (click here to listen to or read today’s scriptures) Wordless 2 Come, let us return to the Lord. He has broken us but he will heal us. Here is a sweet poem by former pastor Steve Garnaas-Holmes: Gracious One, I imagine your sadness that we only pray for the stuff...
Friday, March 28, 2025 (click here to listen to or read today’s scriptures) Wordless 1 Take with you words, and return to the Lord. And usually we do. We pray with words. In doing so we discover a path, returning to the Lord. We make lists of people and projects that we offer up...
Thursday, March 27, 2025 (click here to listen to or read today’s scriptures) Dreams If today you hear his voice, harden not your hearts. In my dream I was at camp, a combined 4-H camp at Allerton Park and Transforming Community retreat at Marytown. At times I was a boy, then I was a...
Wednesday, March 26, 2025 (click here to listen to or read today’s scriptures) Mosaic Who will hear of all these statutes and say, ‘This great nation is truly a wise and intelligent people.’ For what great nation is there that has gods so close to it as the LORD, our God, is to us...
Tuesday, March 25, 2025 Solemnity of the Annunciation of the Lord (click here to listen to or read today’s scriptures) Shout Here I am, Lord; I come to do your will. Your justice I kept not hid within my heart; your faithfulness and your salvation I have spoken of; I have made no secret...
