desiring God … listening, waiting
Wednesday, March 13, 2024 (click here to listen to or read today’s scriptures) Country Salvage Thus says the Lord: in a time of favor I answer you, on the day of salvation I help you, and I have kept you and given you as a covenant to the people, to restore the land and...
Tuesday, March 12, 2024 (click here to listen to or read today’s scriptures) Wade in the water Now there was a river through which I could not wade, for the water had risen so high it had become a river which could not be crossed. Except by swimming. He brought me to the bank...
Monday, March 11, 2024 (click here to listen to or read today’s scriptures) Watching with Jesus Unless you people see signs and wonders, you will not believe. Then the royal official said to Jesus, “Sir, come down before my child dies.” And Jesus said to him, “You may go; your son will live.” A...
Fourth Sunday of Lent, March 10, 2024 (click here to listen to or read today’s scriptures) A few words, and no more In Killers of the Flower Moon, King Hale instructs his newly-returned-from-the-Great War nephew Ernest in the ways of the Osage Indians, who live all around them. The Osage are sharp. They don’t...
Saturday, March 9, 2024 (click here to listen to or read today’s scriptures) Killers of the flower moon Rich man, poor man Beggar man, thief Tinker, tailor, soldier, spy Just watched the movie and fell into the history of it, and the truth of it, and the personality of it. And I thought of...
Friday, March 8, 2024 (click here to listen to or read today’s scriptures) Sugar in the blood Return O Israel, to the Lord, your God; you have collapsed through your guilt. Blood sugar is a good thing, until it’s not. Diabetics I or II (like me) get to know this narrow band of medical...
Thursday, March 7, 2024 (click here to listen to or read today’s scriptures) Jeremiah’s visit Every kingdom divided against itself will be laid waste, and house will fall against house. If it is by the finger of God that I drive out demons, then the Kingdom of God has come upon you. I heard...
Wednesday, March 6, 2024 Memorial of Saint Paul Miki and Companions, Martyrs (click here to listen to or read today’s scriptures) Glory be Cold air has descended upon the earlier arrival of spring. We can no longer sit outside in the sun to hear birds sing in the morning and the too soon onset...
Posted on Mar 05, 2024
Tuesday, March 5, 2024 (click here to listen to or read today’s scriptures) Home again, following the circle round the sun Last day of my trip, heading back to Urbana. Full of sounds and sights, remembering, ready to return to 2024. Here’s a link to a devotion from March 5, 2022, while I was...
Monday, March 4, 2024 Monday of the third week of Lent (click here to listen to or read today’s scriptures) A vanishing trail Today I hope to be in Valparaiso, Indiana where I went to college 1967-71, exploring the nooks of memory as best I can 50 plus years later. There is so much...
