desiring God … listening, waiting
Saturday, May 25, 2024 (click here to listen to or read today’s scriptures) Do it anyway Let my prayer come like incense before you; the lifting up of hands, like the evening sacrifice. Although she has run into some thick walls, Beth Moore has never shied away from hard confrontations when she’s convinced that’s...
Friday, May 24, 2024 (click here to listen to or read today’s scriptures) Looking inward As the heavens are high above the earth, so surpassing is his kindness toward those who fear him. As far as the east is from the west, so far has he put our transgressions from us. In Plough Magazine,...
Thursday, May 23, 2024 (click here to listen to or read today’s scriptures) Character rock Receive the word of God, not as the word of men, but as it truly is, the word of God. Assuming I have one, what will my gravestone say? I haven’t thought about it much. My friend Jack’s said,...
Posted on May 22, 2024
Wednesday, May 22, 2024 (click here to listen to or read today’s scriptures) Feed the birds, tuppence a bag You have no idea what your life will be like tomorrow. Last week I moved two effective squirrel-proof bird feeders from a closet to a box heading back to Illinois. For months we filled them...
Tuesday of the Seventh Week of Ordinary Time, May 21, 2024 (click here to listen to or read today’s scriptures) Nostos-algia Beloved: where do the wars and conflicts among you come from? God bestows a greater grace and the spirit says, “Resist the proud, give grace to the humble. For centuries homesickness was considered...
Memorial of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Mother of the Church (click here to listen to or read today’s scriptures) Learning from Jonah The Lord God called to Adam and asked him, “Where are you?” Adam answered, “I heard you in the garden, but I was afraid, because I was naked. So I hid myself.”...
Pentecost Sunday, May 19, 2024 (click here to listen to or read today’s scriptures) Veni, sancte, spiritus I have much more to tell you, but you cannot bear it now. And then just a few days later, while with two of his friends on the road to Emmaus: Beginning with Moses and all the...
Posted on May 18, 2024
Saturday, May 18, 2024 (click here to listen to or read today’s scriptures) Asking more of politics than politics can deliver What does it mean to say our cultural foundations are shaking? David Brooks finds an idea in a book by Alexandre Lefebvre, about how we see the world. We avoid the big questions...
Friday, May 17, 2024 (click here to listen to or read today’s scriptures) The weather in Caesarea Outside on the patio our basil is growing to beat the band. On the other side of the walk behind our apartments an ancient juniper touts two green branches, somehow growing out of a gnarly, mostly dead...
Thursday, May 16, 2024 (click here to listen to or read today’s scriptures) A day in the life with Jesus I give them the glory you gave me, so that they may be one, as we are one, I in them and you in me, that they and their world may know that you...
