desiring God … listening, waiting
Posted on Feb 16, 2024
Friday, February 16, 2024 (click here to listen to or read today’s scriptures) A good day with Jasper and George I left my phone at Jasper’s house last night. But before that we had quite a day at our house. Our friend George came for lunch, for salmon and rice, broccoli and corn on...
Thursday, February 15, 2024 (click here to listen to or read today’s scriptures) Stories from the heart We didn’t go all out yesterday (like 65 million pounds of roses imported from Europe and 35 million heart-shaped boxes of chocolate), but we did honor St. Valentine and each other. At Trader Joe’s Tuesday afternoon I...
Posted on Feb 14, 2024
Ash Wednesday, February 14, 2024 Valentine’s Day (click here to listen to or read today’s scriptures) And now the forty days begin Even now, says the Lord, return to me with your whole heart. I take comfort in the words “even now.” Don’t you? We are called over and over to the side of...
Posted on Feb 13, 2024
Tuesday, February 13, 2024 (click here to listen to or read today’s scriptures) Fat Tuesday before Ash Wednesday The season of Lent begins tomorrow. Exclamation mark! As for today, eat drink and be merry, for tomorrow we … fast. Blessed is he who perseveres in temptation. At the grocery store I bought salmon, milk,...
Monday, February 12, 2024 (click here to listen to or read today’s scriptures) Bless every home In Austin our apartment complex has 166 apartments with around 225 occupants, not including dogs, cats, lizards or snakes. We found an app called “Bless Every Home,” and today we had the chance to pray for Donna, Adam,...
Posted on Feb 11, 2024
Sixth Sunday in Ordinary Time, February 11, 2024 (click here to listen to or read today’s scriptures) Student … householder … forest dweller … holy fool Whatever you do, do everything for the glory of God. Erik Erikson imagined eight stages of human life, from infancy to old age. Thomas Merton and Richard Rohr,...
Posted on Feb 10, 2024
Saturday, February 10, 2024 Memorial of Saint Scholastica, Virgin (click here to listen to or read today’s scriptures) Let us melt together into eternity Having now at last completed my living will and medical power of attorney (sans the signatures of witnesses), I can return to writing, and to reading Surrender to Love and...
Friday, February 9, 2024 (click here to listen to or read today’s scriptures) Up, up and away I am the Lord, your God; hear my voice. Andi invited us to dinner. At the table Miles asked me, “Grandpa, tell us stories about hot air ballooning.” We had spent the last hour up in their...
Posted on Feb 08, 2024
Thursday, February 8, 2024 (click here to listen to or read today’s scriptures) All things bright and beautiful Out of my spinning mental laundry basket of tumbled, unending and disconnected thoughts, most of which had no business taking up any kind of residence in there, a verse rescued me. The earth is the Lord’s...
Posted on Feb 07, 2024
Wednesday, February 7, 2024 (click here to listen to or read today’s scriptures) Getting hugged, and loving it Here’s a sweet note from Clarence Heller about grandkids and prayer, that is to say, prayer and grandkids, and the virtual hugs that come from God, and the hugs that come from God with skin on:...
