David Sandel

Thursday, July 20, 2023 (click here to listen to or read today’s scriptures) Plagues be upon you, O great and glorious Pharaoh Come unto me, all ye who labor and are heavy-laden, and I will give you rest. Outside the cicadas are singing. These are annual Texas cicadas, not the seventeen year kind. The...

Wednesday, July 19, 2023 (click here to listen to or read today’s scriptures) Sitting beside the burning bush Moses, tending his father-in-law’s flocks, saw a bush burning, but not consumed. “I must go over to look at this remarkable sight!” We spent many hours mowing farm weeds, and also cutting them down with a...

Tuesday, July 18, 2023 (click here to listen to or read today’s scriptures) Moses is born and becomes a man Two Levites married, conceived, and she bore a son. She hid him for three months and then put the child in a papyrus basket. She placed it among the reeds in the riverbank. His...

Monday, July 17, 2023 (click here to listen to or read today’s scriptures) Being a baby in Egypt Whoever gives just a cup of cold water to one of these little ones to drink because he is a disciple – amen, I say to you, he will surely not lose his reward. In this...

Fifteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time, July 16, 2023 (click here to listen to or read today’s scriptures) Some seed falls on rich soil A sower went out to sow. Some seed fell on the path, and birds came and ate it up. Richard Rohr says “hatred holds a group together much more quickly than...

Saturday, July 15, 2023 Memorial of Saint Bonaventure, Bishop and Doctor of the Church (click here to listen to or read today’s scriptures) The last days of Jacob and Joseph Gather around, my sons. Listen to your father Israel. Reuben, you will no longer excel, for you went up onto your father’s bed. Simeon...

Friday, July 14, 2023 (click here to listen to or read today’s scriptures) Hang on, we’re moving to Egypt! Israel (Jacob) set out with all that was his. The sons of Israel (all those guys likeBenjamin, Judah, Reuben, Gad and the rest, who became the 12 Tribes of Israel) put their father and their...

Saturday, July 8, 2023 (click here to listen to or read today’s scriptures) Homecoming Judah approached Joseph and spoke: Our aged father told us to come back and buy more food. But we could not, only if our youngest brother could also go. So our aged father said, “My wife bore me two sons....

Wednesday, July 12, 2023 (click here to listen to or read today’s scriptures) First class citizen of Egypt I have never flown first class. Marc and I might do just that on a flight we’re taking in October, because the point difference is small. Kind of small. First class should cost more, or it...

Tuesday, July 11, 2023 Memorial of Saint Benedict, Abbott (click here to listen to or read today’s scriptures) High school memories Hide me in the shadow your wings. On waking, I shall be content in your presence. We’re hoping to see a musical tomorrow afternoon. The drama coaches of Brigadoon’s dress rehearsal at Brentwood...