Old Year’s Night-This Year, There Will Be Fire

New Yearโ€™s Eve portends a year of hopeful questions. Old Yearโ€™s Night is the last day of an answering year. In every case, the answer is the same. If it didnโ€™t kill you, no matter what it was, you will never fear it again.  Old Yearโ€™s Nights prepare for New Yearโ€™s Days by way of …

Exhaled (a reboot)

And then, I exhaled. Iโ€™m committed to learning to breathe deeply. This is more than a metaphor. I am a shallow breather. According to people who teach meditation,   When we breathe in a shallow way, the body remains in a cyclical state of stressโ€”our stress causing shallow breathing and our shallow breathing causing stress. This …

Morning Devotional 4.29.26

โ€œYet to all who did receive him, to those who believed in his name, he gave the right to become children of Godโ€” children born not of natural descent, nor of human decision or a husbandโ€™s will, but born of God.โ€โ€ญโ€ญJohnโ€ฌ โ€ญ1โ€ฌ:โ€ญ12โ€ฌ-โ€ญ13โ€ฌ โ€ญNIVโ€ฌโ€ฌ We are gathered into the family of God. There is no criteria …

Morning Devotional 4.28.26

Morning Devotional โ€œThis is love: not that we loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son as an atoning sacrifice for our sins.โ€โ€ญโ€ญ1 Johnโ€ฌ โ€ญ4โ€ฌ:โ€ญ10โ€ฌ โ€ญNIVโ€ฌโ€ฌ What does love look like?In the year since losing My Beloved, I have learned so many looks of love. Compassion, companionship, nurturing, even laughter. Thanks be …

Morning Devotional 4.27.26

โ€œYou are the light of the world. A city set on a hill cannot be hidden.โ€โ€ญโ€ญMatthewโ€ฌ โ€ญ5โ€ฌ:โ€ญ14โ€ฌ โ€ญESVโ€ฌโ€ฌ We are Light. The Word identifies us as visible reflectors of Godโ€™s Truth, righteousness, and love. We are called to be the embodiment of active, public faith that acts as a guiding, moral light to a fallen …

Daily Devotional 4.22.26

For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through him. Whoever believes in him is not condemned, but whoever does not believe stands condemned already because they have not believed in the name of Godโ€™s one and only Son.โ€โ€ญโ€ญJohnโ€ฌ โ€ญ3โ€ฌ:โ€ญ17โ€ฌ-โ€ญ18โ€ฌ โ€ญNIVโ€ฌโ€ฌ Christ's mission was …

Morning (somewhere) Devotional 4.19.26

โ€œFor the Spirit God gave us does not make us timid, but gives us power, love and self-discipline.โ€โ€ญโ€ญ2 Timothyโ€ฌ โ€ญ1โ€ฌ:โ€ญ7โ€ฌ โ€ญNIVโ€ฌโ€ฌ Scared for what?? I have, by Godโ€™s Grace survived for trials and heartaches than I ever couldโ€™ve imagined. Afraid of what? Seriously? If Iโ€™ve learned nothing else on this faith journey, it is that …

Morning Devotional 4.17.26

โ€œBe alert and of sober mind. Your enemy the devil prowls around like a roaring lion looking for someone to devour. Resist him, standing firm in the faith, because you know that the family of believers throughout the world is undergoing the same kind of sufferings.โ€โ€ญโ€ญ1 Peterโ€ฌ โ€ญ5โ€ฌ:โ€ญ8โ€ฌ-โ€ญ9โ€ฌ โ€ญNIVโ€ฌโ€ฌ Stay Woke! Thatโ€™s what being alert …

Itโ€™s Late for Morning Devotional 4.14.26

Thank you, Lord, for the wise women and men Youโ€™ve placed in my path.Catherine, may God guide and keep you continually.Thanks be to God Image may be subject to copyright Friends. Blasphemy by way of artistic rendering is terrible and must be clearly denounced. But blasphemy by way of dehumanizing and damaging our fellow humans …

Morning Devotional 4.11.26

โ€œDonโ€™t you know that you yourselves are Godโ€™s temple and that Godโ€™s Spirit dwells in your midst? If anyone destroys Godโ€™s temple, God will destroy that person; for Godโ€™s temple is sacred, and you together are that temple.โ€โ€ญโ€ญ1 Corinthiansโ€ฌ โ€ญ3โ€ฌ:โ€ญ16โ€ฌ-โ€ญ17โ€ฌ โ€ญNIVโ€ฌโ€ฌ If we are sacred, how do we care for our temples? This morning I …

Morning Devotional 4.10.26

โ€œThe Lord is near to all who call on him, to all who call on him in truth. He fulfills the desires of those who fear him; he hears their cry and saves them.โ€โ€ญโ€ญPsalmsโ€ฌ โ€ญ145โ€ฌ:โ€ญ18โ€ฌ-โ€ญ19โ€ฌ โ€ญNIVโ€ฌ Fear. Fear of God. We hear โ€œfearโ€ and we panic. Fear of God is reverence or awe, meaning none …

Morning Devotional 4.7.26

โ€œVery truly I tell you, whoever hears my word and believes him who sent me has eternal life and will not be judged but has crossed over from death to life.โ€โ€ญโ€ญJohnโ€ฌ โ€ญ5โ€ฌ:โ€ญ24โ€ฌ โ€ญNIVโ€ฌโ€ฌ What if believing could change everything? Would you risk it for everything? Our faith is rewarded, even when it is weak and …