Morning Devotional 11.14.2025

“O Lord, you are my God; I will exalt you; I will praise your name, for you have done wonderful things, plans formed of old, faithful and sure.”‭‭Isaiah‬ ‭25‬:‭1‬ ‭NRSVUE‬‬ When you’re feeling overwhelmed, out of sorts, or just out of your league….remember Who holds you.You jnowyits been today when my morning devotional gets posted …

Morning Devotional 11.13.2025

“Rejoice in the Lord always; again I will say, Rejoice. Let your gentleness be known to everyone. The Lord is near.”‭‭Philippians‬ ‭4‬:‭4‬-‭5‬ ‭NRSVUE‬‬ Rejoice. Let your gentleness be known to everyone. I have historically reserved my gentleness, but you always knew, Beloved. I’ve been the recipient of overwhelming gentleness in my season of grief. Extending …

Morning Devotional 11.12.2025

“Therefore encourage one another and build up each other, as indeed you are doing.”‭‭1 Thessalonians‬ ‭5‬:‭11‬ ‭NRSVUE‬‬ Ours is, at present, a fiercely divided world, but that is not WHO we have to be. What if we reached out, just a little bit, to one another? What if we behaved like we were created and …

Morning Devotional 11.10.2025

“A voice cries out: “In the wilderness prepare the way of the Lord; make straight in the desert a highway for our God. Every valley shall be lifted up, and every mountain and hill be made low; the uneven ground shall become level, and the rough places a plain.”‭‭Isaiah‬ ‭40‬:‭3‬-‭4‬ ‭NRSVUE‬‬ Dear God, lead us …

Morning Devotional 11.8.2025

“He himself bore our sins in his body on the cross, so that, having died to sins, we might live for righteousness; by his wounds you have been healed.”‭‭1 Peter‬ ‭2‬:‭24‬ ‭NRSVUE‬‬ First in Isaiah, and here in 1 Peter, we are reminded that Christ suffered that we might live healed and free. We are …

Morning Devotional 11.7.2025

“I have fought the good fight; I have finished the race; I have kept the faith.”‭‭2 Timothy‬ ‭4‬:‭7‬ ‭NRSVUE‬‬ Paraphrasing Kierkegaard, we live our lives forward, but they can only be understood backwards. Looking back to conversations with My Beloved in our last days together, he was saying goodbye, assuring me of his love, and …

Morning Devotional 11.6.2025

“For surely I know the plans I have for you, says the Lord, plans for your welfare and not for harm, to give you a future with hope.”‭‭Jeremiah‬ ‭29‬:‭11‬ ‭NRSVUE‬‬ You are not forgotten. Nobody knows all of what anyone else is carrying, but your burdens are known.Hang in there, Warrior. #BEDIP #underdivineconstruction #trustinggodistherealflex Image …

Morning Devotional 11.05.2026

“When the ways of people please the Lord, he causes even their enemies to be at peace with them. Better is a little with righteousness than large income with injustice. The human mind plans the way, but the Lord directs the steps.”‭‭Proverbs‬ ‭16‬:‭7‬-‭9‬ ‭NRSVUE‬‬ “Better is a little with righteousness.” Learning to lean and depend …