desiring God … listening, waiting
Saturday, February 15, 2025 (click here to listen to or read today’s scriptures) Who told you? God is looking for his people, children he created from dust not so long ago. He does not see them in their usual place. He calls out, Where are you? Adam answered, I heard you in the garden,...
Friday, February 14, 2025 Memorial of Saints Cyril, Monk, and Methodius, Bishop Valentine’s Day (click here to listen to or read today’s scriptures) Ashamed The sacred is always brimming from the heart of everything. If what it means to be a mystic is to walk through this world looking through the eyes of love,...
Thursday, February 13, 2025 (click here to listen to or read today’s scriptures) Naked Humbly welcome the word that has been planted in you and is able to save your souls. In the beginning God. At times Genesis 1-3 uses the pronoun “we” in describing God; God was a community. Or a marriage. God...
Wednesday, February 12, 2025 (click here to listen to or read today’s scriptures) Eden The LORD God had sent no rain upon the earth, but a stream was welling up out of the earth and was watering all the surface of the ground. In Austin there has been a great rain for the past...
Tuesday, February 11, 2025 (click here to listen to or read today’s scriptures) Seventh day Let the water teem, let the birds multiply, let the earth bring forth. And so it happened. We have the opportunity for two weeks to meditate on the beginning of the world, on God’s creation in seven days, of...
Monday, February 10, 2025 Memorial of Saint Scholastica, Virgin (click here to listen to or read today’s scriptures) First day In the beginning God. And with that astonishing introduction, the creation of the world begins. First comes love, then comes marriage, then comes the baby in a baby carriage. That’s our little piece of...
Sunday, February 9, 2025 (click here to listen to or read today’s scriptures) Sent I said: “Woe is me! I am lost, for I am a man of unclean lips, and I live among a people of unclean lips; yet my eyes have seen the Mighty One, the Supreme of all!” Then one of...
Saturday, February 8, 2025 (click here to listen to or read today’s scriptures) Wumps Come away by yourselves to a deserted place and rest awhile. Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life, and I will dwell in the house of the Lord forever. Miles and Jasper spent a...
Friday, February 7, 2025 (click here to listen to or read today’s scriptures) Gethsemani Do not neglect hospitality, for through it some have unknowingly entertained angels. On the gate which opens into the Abbey of Gethsemani hangs a sign: “Only God.” In the fourth century, Benedict founded the first European monastery. In the rules...
Thursday, February 6, 2025 Memorial of Saint Paul Miki and Companions, Martyrs (click here to listen to or read today’s scriptures) Now and then They went off and preached repentance. The Twelve drove out many demons, and they anointed with oil many who were sick and cured them. But some saw the disciples’ good...
