desiring God … listening, waiting
Wednesday, February 5, 2025 Memorial of Saint Agatha, Virgin and Martyr (click here to listen to or read today’s scriptures) Balancing my prayer life Strengthen your drooping hands and your weak knees. Make straight paths for your feet, so that the lame may be healed. Strive for peace with everyone, and to be holy....
Tuesday, February 4, 2025 (click here to listen to or read today’s scriptures) Martyr Let the coming generation be told of the Lord that they may proclaim to a people yet to be born the justice he has shown. Yesterday’s lectionary spoke of people sawn in two. In a movie we watched, The Wind...
Monday, February 3, 2025 (click here to listen to or read today’s scriptures) Mercy As the people approached Jesus they caught sight of the man who had been possessed by Legion, sitting there clothed and in his right mind. And they were seized with fear. Why should they be afraid? Do they think they...
Sunday, February 2, 2025 Feast of the Presentation of the Lord (click here to listen to or read today’s scriptures) Hands When the days were complete Mary and Joseph took Jesus up to Jerusalem to present him to the Lord. Here is Joseph, holding their tiny child in his big, work-worn hands. Here...
Saturday, February 1, 2025 (click here to listen to or read today’s scriptures) Small I drove 1,179 miles since Wednesday morning and here I am in balmy Austin, where the temperature might be 77 on Sunday afternoon. At midnight I pick up Margaret at the airport, after her long day of waiting and flying,...
Posted on Jan 31, 2025
Haiku for every day of January 2025 January 1 Parades, football, sun What a way to start the year Reading too, and prayer January 2 To entertain the Boys, Diane bought cool machine Make cotton candy January 3 Lasting impressions IMAX impressionism Andi and the boys January 4 this year,...
Posted on Jan 31, 2025
Complete list of January 2025 Daily Devotions with links January 1 First day January 2 Vasilopita January 3 Peacemakers January 4 Cotton candy January 5 Suddenly January 6 Theophany January 7 Weather January 8 Something more like dancing January 9 Questions January 10 In the world January 11 Fire January 12 Water and spirit...
Wednesday, January 31, 2025 (click here to listen to or read today’s scriptures) While I’m traveling, here are the readings and a devotion from January 31, 2022 … The benefits of drowning I lie down and sleep, and wake again, for the Lord sustains me. I will not fear though tens of thousands are...
Thursday, January 30, 2025 (click here to listen to or read today’s scriptures) While I’m traveling, here are the readings and a devotion from January 30, 2022 … Jeremiah and Jesus The word of the Lord came to me. Before I formed you in the womb I knew you, I dedicated you as a...
Wednesday, January 29, 2025 (click here to listen to or read today’s scriptures) While I’m traveling, here are the readings and a devotion from January 29, 2022 … Nathan confronts David THOU ART THE MAN! And David knew it was true. He had buried his shame, but that would not do. He heard Nathan’s...
