desiring God … listening, waiting
Posted on Aug 06, 2023
Eighteenth Sunday of Ordinary Time, August 6, 2023 Feast of the Transfiguration of the Lord (click here to listen to or read today’s scriptures) Here is a lamp shining in a dark place Thrones were set up and the Ancient One took his throne. At the hospital my blood pressure guy, David Zachary, said,...
Saturday in the Seventeenth Week of Ordinary Time, August 5, 2023 Following is the devotion I wrote two years ago on July 31, 2021, which was Saturday in the Seventeenth Week of Ordinary Time in 2021. The lectionary readings were exactly the same that day as they are today. I hope to be out...
Posted on Aug 04, 2023
Friday of the Seventeenth Week in Ordinary Time, August 4, 2023 Following is the devotion I wrote two years ago on July 30, 2021, which was Friday in the Seventeenth Week of Ordinary Time in 2021. The lectionary readings were exactly the same that day as they are today. And although I am unearthing...
Posted on Aug 03, 2023
Thursday, August 3, 2023 (click here to listen to or read today’s scriptures) Exactly what the Lord commands Moses did exactly as the Lord had commanded him. It was Moses who erected the Dwelling (Tabernacle). He spread the tent over the Dwelling, as the Lord commanded him. He took the commandments and put them...
Wednesday, August 2, 2023 (click here to listen to or read today’s scriptures) The sunburned prophet As Moses came down from Mount Sinai with the two tablets of the commandments in his hands, he did not know that the skin of his face had become radiant while he conversed with the Lord. Moses the...
Posted on Aug 01, 2023
Tuesday, August 1, 2023 Memorial of Saint Alphonsus Liguori, Bishop and Doctor of the Church (click here to listen to or read today’s scriptures) The friendship of Yahweh and Moses The people would all rise and stand at the entrance of their own tents, watching Moses until he entered the tent. All rise! Here...
Posted on Jul 31, 2023
Complete list of July 2023 Daily Devotions with links July 1 We have guests July 2 Christ-like-ness July 3 How did Jesus read his scriptures July 4 A wholistic kind of patriotism July 5 Be swift my soul to answer him July 6 O, those piccolos! July 7 Now, now, be born again July...
Posted on Jul 31, 2023
Haiku for every day of July 2023 July 1 Here we are, let’s talk Heat the water, make some tea Open gentle ears July 2 On a post-it note Armando writes Rule of Life: “I’ll be kind, give thanks.” July 3 so let’s go swim! Fishing? Well, that too, of course Where can...
Posted on Jul 31, 2023
Monday, July 31, 2023 Memorial of Saint Ignatius of Loyola, Priest Jasper’s 4th Birthday (click here to listen to or read today’s scriptures) Being four, being there – Jasper’s 4th birthday The Kingdom of heaven is like a mustard seed that a person took and sowed in a field. It is the smallest of...
Seventeenth Sunday in Ordinary Time, July 30, 2023 (click here to listen to or read today’s scriptures) Jasper’s 4th Birthday Party The Lord appeared to Solomon in a dream at night. God said, “Ask something of me and I will give it to you.” This, like the story of Aladdin and the Genie, the...
