David Sandel

Thursday, March 23, 2023 (click here to listen to or read today’s scriptures) For all the saints How can you believe, when you accept praise from one another and do not seek the praise that comes from the only God? As we participate in our own family’s life, I realize how precious is the...

Wednesday, March 22, 2023 (click here to listen to or read today’s scriptures) My roof’s got a hole in it and I might drown I am the resurrection and the life, says the Lord; whoever believes in me will never die. And the spring rains came. Not monsoon, but an all-day rain, surrendered by...

Tuesday, March 21, 2023 (click here to listen to or read today’s scriptures) I am just a fruit tree, though my story’s seldom told Now there is in Jerusalem at the Sheep Gate a pool called in Hebrew Bethesda, with five porticos. In these porticoes lay a large number of ill, blind, lame, and...

Monday, March 20, 2023 Solemnity of Saint Joseph, Spouse of the Blessed Virgin Mary (click here to listen to or read today’s scriptures) Traveling on Mayday, 1969 Your house and your kingdom shall endure forever before me; your throne shall stand firm forever … My kindness is established forever … My covenant with him...

Fourth Sunday of Lent, March 19, 2023 (click here to listen to or read today’s scriptures) Darkness and light Brothers and sisters, you were once darkness, but now you are light in the Lord. We woke up this morning to sunshine and snow, and the sky was blue, and the birds flew nearly frozen...

Saturday, March 18, 2023 (click here to listen to or read today’s scriptures) Undefiled access Come, let us return to the Lord. It is he who has rent, but he will heal us. He has struck us, but he will bind our wounds. On the third day he will raise us up to live...

SEE TODAY’S POSTED DEVOTION ON MARCH 15 (Grandma Dot has passed away)...

Thursday, March 16, 2023 (click here to listen to or read today’s scriptures) Mixed memories on this particular sunny day If today you hear his voice, harden not your hearts. Let us kneel before the Lord our God who made us. Outside our study window in Urbana two old fashioned rocking lawn chairs, painted...

Friday, March 17, 2023 (posted on March 15) (click here to listen to or read today’s scriptures) (see also the devotion for March 9) Grandma Dot has passed away We shall say no more “Our god,” to the work of our hands; for in you the orphan finds compassion. I will heal their defection,...

Wednesday, March 15, 2023 (click here to listen to or read today’s scriptures) On the occasion of any one of our despairs Take care and be earnestly on your guard not to forget the things which your own eyes have seen, nor let them slip from your memory as long as you live, but...