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 3.11.26

โ€œIf you declare with your mouth, โ€œJesus is Lord,โ€ and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved. For it is with your heart that you believe and are justified, and it is with your mouth that you profess your faith and are saved.โ€โ€ญโ€ญRomansโ€ฌ โ€ญ10โ€ฌ:โ€ญ9โ€ฌ-โ€ญ10โ€ฌ โ€ญNIVโ€ฌโ€ฌ Mouths are …

Morning Devotional 3.11.26

โ€œHe said to them, โ€œGo into all the world and preach the gospel to all creation.โ€œโ€ญโ€ญMarkโ€ฌ โ€ญ16โ€ฌ:โ€ญ15โ€ฌ โ€ญNIVโ€ฌโ€ฌHow do we preach the Gospel? How about starting with our lives, not our mouths. Thereโ€™s so much noise and nonsense in the public arena.Do, or Do Not.Be judged by your actions, not your mouth. Image may be …

Motherโ€™s Day Prayer 2026

โ€œOn this Motherโ€™s Day, we give thanks to God for the divine gift of motherhood in allits diverse forms. Let us pray for all the mothers among us today; for our ownmothers, those living and those who have passed away; for the mothers who loved usand for those who fell short of loving us fully; …

Morning Devotional 5.9.26

โ€œAgain Jesus said, โ€œPeace be with you! As the Father has sent me, I am sending you.โ€โ€โ€ญโ€ญJohnโ€ฌ โ€ญ20โ€ฌ:โ€ญ21โ€ฌ โ€ญNIVโ€ฌโ€ฌ Motherโ€™s Day can be complicated, and Mothering is not easy. So as we ease into the weekend, I pray that you might be at peaceโ€ฆthe peace passing all reason and understanding, now and always.Lord, in your …

Morning Devotional 5.8.26

โ€œSo neither the one who plants nor the one who waters is anything, but only God, who makes things grow.โ€โ€ญโ€ญ1 Corinthiansโ€ฌ โ€ญ3โ€ฌ:โ€ญ7โ€ฌ โ€ญNIVโ€ฌโ€ฌ Only God makes things grow. We are impatient. We want things to happen because we want them, but patience isnโ€™t our strength. We also forget that we have no power, not the …

Morning Devotional 3.6.26

โ€œBe still before the Lord and wait patiently for him; do not fret when people succeed in their ways, when they carry out their wicked schemes.โ€โ€ญโ€ญPsalmsโ€ฌ โ€ญ37โ€ฌ:โ€ญ7โ€ฌ โ€ญNIVโ€ฌโ€ฌ โ€œWhat good is access if your foundation collapses the moment that pressure shows up?โ€Be patient. Trust God. Be still. Wait patiently. God has never failed you, and …

Morning Devotional 5.4.26

Lessons Learned by my Other Downward Facing Dog โ€œAnd the God of all grace, who called you to his eternal glory in Christ, after you have suffered a little while, will himself restore you and make you strong, firm and steadfast.โ€โ€ญโ€ญ1 Peterโ€ฌ โ€ญ5โ€ฌ:โ€ญ10โ€ฌ โ€ญNIVโ€ฌโ€ฌ Obu was insistent this morning. He interrupted my morning writing ( …

Morning Devotional 3.3.26

โ€œFor I am not ashamed of the gospel, because it is the power of God that brings salvation to everyone who believes: first to the Jew, then to the Gentile.โ€โ€ญโ€ญRomansโ€ฌ โ€ญ1โ€ฌ:โ€ญ16โ€ฌ โ€ญNIVโ€ฌโ€ฌ As we greet the day, let us prayโ€ฆโ€œAlmighty God, whom truly to know is everlasting life: Grant us so perfectly to know your …