desiring God … listening, waiting
Posted on Sep 05, 2024
Thursday, September 5, 2024 (click here to listen to or read today’s scriptures) Get to know our precious pearl-ness Become a fool, so you can be wise. Let none of us boast, and also not the world, nor life, nor death, nor the present nor the future. All belong to you, and you to...
Posted on Sep 04, 2024
Wednesday, September 4, 2024 (click here to listen to or read today’s scriptures) Not long till harvest time I planted, Apollos watered, but God caused the growth. Neither the one who plants nor the one who waters is anything, but only God, who causes the growth. Jesus said with emphasis, “I only do what...
Posted on Sep 03, 2024
Tuesday, September 3, 2024 Memorial of Saint Gregory the Great, Pope and Doctor of the Church (click here to listen to or read today’s scriptures) Post Labor Day and the need to be whole Brothers and sisters, the Spirit scrutinizes everything. Who knows what pertains to the man except his spirit which is within....
Posted on Sep 02, 2024
Monday, September 2, 2024 (click here to listen to or read today’s scriptures) Window overlooking the East River While Dorothy Day was busy editing her magazine The Daily Worker in the early 1950s, she made time to write a short biography of Thérèse of Liseaux. She wrote with a distinct purpose. I wrote to...
Twenty-second Sunday in Ordinary Time, September 1, 2024 (click here to listen to or read today’s scriptures) Grandma, pray for me All good giving and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of lights. On Amtrak the café car had ½ price specials. So Miles and Jasper decided to use...
Posted on Aug 31, 2024
Complete list of August 2024 Daily Devotions with links August 1 The friendship of Yahweh and Moses August 2 The sunburned prophet August 3 Exactly what the Lord commands August 4 Manna and quail August 5 Under a bridge in Austin August 6 Birth-week for Jasper August 7 Surgery day for our pastor...
Posted on Aug 31, 2024
Haiku for every day of August 2024 August 1 Fifth birth-day over But your birth-week continues We love you, Jasper! August 2 All day with the boys Legos, lunch, Henry and Mudge It’s been a long time! August 3 Bricks and minifigs Jasper, five friends, Miles For his fifth birthday ...
Saturday, August 31, 2024 (click here to listen to or read today’s scriptures) Good long day in Waco From heaven the Lord looks down and sees us all. Driving home we talked all about the ten hours we had just spent together. We were eating chocolate ice cream and I couldn’t get enough water...
Posted on Aug 30, 2024
Friday, August 30, 2024 (click here to listen to or read today’s scriptures) What are we going to watch tonight? The cross of Christ must not be emptied of its meaning. We watch a lot of films on Turner Classic Movies, produced mostly from the 1930s through the 1960s. Since the first successful movie...
Posted on Aug 29, 2024
Thursday, August 29, 2024 Memorial of the Passion of Saint John the Baptist (click here to listen to or read today’s scriptures) Poems from the inn of William Blake The foolishness of God is wiser than human wisdom. Aristotle and many after looked for truth, goodness and beauty to guide humanity into the light....
