desiring God … listening, waiting
Friday, September 27, 2024 Memorial of Saint Vincent de Paul, Priest (click here to listen to or read today’s scriptures) Time To everything there is a season, and a time for every purpose under heaven. Dad took naps at 1 pm for 20 minutes, whether under the tractor or lying face down in bed...
Thursday, September 26, 2024 (click here to listen to or read today’s scriptures) Dad’s favorite psalm What profit has a man from all his labor, at which he toils under the sun? Dad sat in a padded rocking chair in our family room, wearing his favorite red flannel shirt. His Christmas shirt. A bright...
Wednesday, September 25, 2024 (click here to listen to or read today’s scriptures) Dental work Give me neither poverty nor riches, but provide me only with the food I need, lest being full, I deny you and say “Who is the Lord?” Or being in want, I steal, and profane the name of my...
Tuesday, September 24, 2024 (click here to listen to or read today’s scriptures) Bold I have chosen the way of truth, I have set my heart on your laws. I hold fast to your statutes, O my Lord, do not let me be put to shame. I run in the path of your commands,...
Monday, September 23, 2024 Memorial of Saint Pius of Pietrelcina, Priest (20th century Franciscan also known as Padre Pio) (click here to listen to or read today’s scriptures) How to be born Refuse no one the good on which he has a claim when it is in your power to do it for him....
Twenty-fifth Sunday in Ordinary Time, September 22, 2024 (click here to listen to or read today’s scriptures) War and peace Where do the wars and where do the conflicts among you come from? Perhaps that is a rhetorical question. James answers it immediately, with another question. Is it not from your passions that make...
Posted on Sep 21, 2024
Saturday, September 21, 2024 Feast of Saint Matthew, Apostle and evangelist (click here to listen to or read today’s scriptures) On the road along the river Grace was given to each of us according to the measure of Christ’s gift. We walked through the Texas Military Museum, reading about war (one of which hoped...
Friday, September 20, 2024 Memorial of Saints Cornelius, Pope, and Cyprian, Bishop, Martyrs (click here to listen to or read today’s scriptures) Heat Hide me in the shadow of your wings, that on waking I shall be content in your presence. On this last day of summer, I miss Illinois because while hot weather...
Thursday, September 19, 2024 Memorial of Saints Andrew Kim Tae-gŏn, Priest, Paul Chŏng Ha-sang, Companions, Martyrs (click here to listen to or read today’s scriptures) Exit Verbs By the grace of God I am what I am. And it’s the grace of God that is with me. How about “befriending” death? That’s Jungian psychologist...
Wednesday, September 18, 2024 (click here to listen to or read today’s scriptures) Business and power Blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord. May your kindness, O Lord, be upon us who have put our hope in you. “Ladies and gentlemen, we are now in business.” I’ve been listening to 24 hours...
