David Sandel

Nineteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time, August 11, 2024 (click here to listen to or read today’s scriptures) Even a second time, declares the Lord For the second time the angel came to him with food and water. Elijah got up, ate and drank, and strengthened, he walked forty days and forty nights to the...

Saturday, August 10, 2024 Feast of Saint Lawrence, Deacon and Martyr (click here to listen to or read today’s scriptures) A different kind of week in Austin Solitude molds self-righteous people into gentle, caring, forgiving persons who are so deeply convinced of their own great sinfulness and so fully aware of God’s even greater...

Friday, August 9, 2024 (click here to listen to or read today’s scriptures) Everything comes out all right in the end Jesus said to his disciples, “Whoever wishes to come after me must deny himself, take up his cross and follow me. For whoever wishes to save his life will lose it, but whoever...

Thursday, August 8, 2024 Memorial of Saint Dominic, priest (click here to listen to or read today’s scriptures) The days are coming I will place my law within them and write it upon their hearts. I will be their God and they shall be my people – no longer will they need to teach...

Wednesday, August 7, 2024 (click here to listen to or read today’s scriptures) Surgery day for our pastor To be lost in God can feel safe and secure, loved and protected, but when God is too big, being lost in God can be as frightening as hell, disoriented and unsure of everything, trapped in...

Tuesday, August 6, 2024 Feast of the Transfiguration of the Lord (click here to listen to or read today’s scriptures) Birth-week for Jasper This is my beloved Son, with whom I am well pleased. Miles and Jasper will be with us parts of every day this week, before they start school on August 12....

Monday, August 5, 2024 (click here to listen to or read today’s scriptures) Under a bridge in Austin Jesus said to his disciples, “There is no need for the people to leave for food; give them some food yourselves.” They had five loaves and two fish, so Jesus blessed them, broke them and the...

Eighteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time, August 4, 2024 (click here to listen to or read today’s scriptures) Manna and quail The Israelite community grumbled against Moses and Aaron. “Would that we had died in Egypt, while we sat and ate our fill. Now we will die of famine in this godforsaken desert!” Wheels roll....

Saturday, August 3, 2024 (click here to listen to or read today’s scriptures) I’ll be traveling back to Austin from Urbana for a few days, and during those days I’ll post three devotions from August 1-3, 2023. Blessings as you read and/or remember them …   Thursday, August 3, 2023 (click here to listen...

Friday, August 2, 2024 (click here to listen to or read today’s scriptures)  I’ll be traveling back to Austin from Urbana for a few days, and during those days I’ll post three devotions from August 1-3, 2023. Blessings as you read and/or remember them …    Wednesday, August 2, 2023 (click here to listen...