David Sandel

Tuesday, February 25, 2025 (click here to listen to or read today’s scriptures) Bookshelves Both in Austin and in Urbana our bookshelves are full. Cookbooks, like the Nero Wolfe Cookbook and The American Diner Cookbook. Autobiographies, like Report to Greco by Nikos Kazantzakis, A View from the Ridge by Morris West, The Milagro Bean...

Monday, February 24, 2025 (click here to listen to or read today’s scriptures) Jack is sixteen, going on seventeen Before all other things wisdom was created, prudent understanding from eternity. Pretty special day for our oldest grandchild, Jac , who is not a child anymore. Because he has had a learner’s permit for several...

Seventh Sunday in Ordinary Time, February 23, 2025 (click here to listen to or read today’s scriptures) Cosmic egg  Nineteenth century philosopher and theologian Soren Kierkegaard invented existentialism. He also suggested an egg to describe the way we grow through (his terms) the aesthetic (desire for everything), the ethical (duty) to the religious (taking...

Saturday, February 22, 2025 Feast of the Chair of Saint Peter, Apostle (click here to listen to or read today’s scriptures) Hog Hollow Road The Lord is my shepherd, I shall not want. He makes me lie down in green pastures, he leads me beside still waters, he restores my soul. What better place...

Friday, February 21, 2025 (click here to listen to or read today’s scriptures) While I’m traveling, here are the readings and a devotion from February 21, 2022 … Transferring trust to Jesus The wisdom from above is first of all pure, then peaceable, gentle, compliant, full of mercy and good fruits, without inconstancy or...

Thursday, February 20, 2025 (click here to listen to or read today’s scriptures) While I’m traveling, here are the readings and a devotion from February 20, 2022 … David hears a whisper in the stars Only the sounds of desert insects broke the silence. David followed his cousin Abishai down from their hilltop camp...

Wednesday, February 19, 2025 (click here to listen to or read today’s scriptures) While I’m traveling, here are the readings and a devotion from February 19, 2022 … Wisconsin dreams. Flawless. Be here now. “On the wind in February, snowflakes float still. Half inclined to turn to rain, nipping, dripping, chill.” – Christina Georgina...

Tuesday, February 18, 2025 (click here to listen to or read today’s scriptures) While I’m traveling, here are the readings and a devotion from February 18, 2022 … Climbing my own Mount Moriah Suppose a brother or sister is without clothes and daily food, and you say to them, “Go in peace, be warm...

Monday, February 17, 2025 (click here to listen to or read today’s scriptures) Murder Adam and Eve bore Cain. Eve said, “I have produced a man with the help of the Lord.” Next she bore his brother Abel. Soon Abel kept the flocks and Cain ploughed the ground. Both boys worked hard at the...

Sixth Sunday in Ordinary Time, February 16, 2025 (click here to listen to or read today’s scriptures) Blessed art thou Advice columnist Ann Landers published a syndicated column from 1943 till 2002. Here is one of her pointed responses to a question: Dear Ann Landers, I have a problem. I’m happily married to a...