Devotionals

Suggested listening: Leaning on the Everlasting Arms, https://youtu.be/DObsJ1PSdnQ?si=jglQROcqg8xiMsf_ What have I to dread, what have I to fearLeaning on the everlasting arms?I have blessed peace with my Lord so nearLeaning on the everlasting arms.~E.A. Hoffman~ “Wisdom reposes in the heart of the discerning.”~Proverbs 14:33~ Repose is a “state of resting” or tranquility, referring to physical… Continue reading Repose

Suggested listening: https://youtu.be/_DzPTHXfFMc?si=agjS0z2DF8kT4M7z “May the road rise up to meet you,May the wind be always at your back.May the sun shine warm upon your face,The rains fall soft upon your fields.And until we meet againMay God hold you in the palm of His hand.” “Only one life. ‘Twill soon be past,Only what’s done for Christ… Continue reading The Irish Blessing

Suggested Listening: Seek Ye First, https://youtu.be/xHfzAJS7IRc?si=19wpciyeuRL4OGrz “Be content with what you have;Rejoice in the way things are.When you realize there is nothing lacking,The whole world belongs to you.”~Lao-Tzu~ “The Lord is my shepherd,I lack nothing.”~Psalm 23:1~ What a comfort to know He is the shepherd of my heart:  I have everything I need in this… Continue reading All These Things

Listening suggestion: Great is Thy Faithfulness, https://youtu.be/NT0HcAr9aeI?si=V_j_bJl0XFQm3blq “Summer and winter and springtime and harvestSun, moon and stars in their courses aboveJoin with all nature in manifold witnessTo Thy great faithfulness, mercy and love.”~Thomas O. Chisholm~ “As long as the earth endures,seedtime and harvest,cold and heat,summer and winter,day and night will never cease.”~Genesis 8:22~ Thomas Chisholm,… Continue reading The Rhythm of His Faithfulness

Suggested listening from George Winston, Spring https://youtu.be/eKb3N7KDhFw?si=cV6o0YWJj88ILQuv “And lo, it was April! With the laughter of April rain …the whisper of April rain …the trickle, the sweep, the drive, the lash,the dance, the splash of April rain.”~L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Ingleside, Chapter 15~ “We carry this precious Message around in the unadorned clay pots [pot… Continue reading Pot of Herbs

New Day, by Danny Gokey: https://youtu.be/0TrKXehB0pg?si=JA1Xuh0nK4yKAbDY “He has shown you, O mortal, what is good. And what does the Lord requireof you?To act justly and to love mercy and to walk humbly with your God.”~Micah 6:8~ “Get up! Why do you lie thus on your face?”~Joshua 7:10~ Lenten intention is about drawing us cross-ward. Parsing… Continue reading Get Up! Get Going!

Suggested listening: Breathe, https://youtu.be/k8PBakPWph4?si=miXDtYYR3fpV2vNr “Be still,and know that I am God.”~Psalm 46:10~ “Without rest, we respond from a survival mode,where everything we meet assumes a terrifying prominence …where everything seems more urgent than it really is,and we react with sloppy desperation …Sabbath honors the necessary wisdom of dormancy.”~Wayne Muller~ The memories of playing in a… Continue reading Exhale

Screenshot Still Waters https://youtu.be/v1IaQvgPsfA?si=FzipvcbFDiX6ngeZ This is the Air I Breathe https://youtu.be/Rg9wV0nfvgg?si=NJ3tMPHZ1DHpGUT5 Rest On Us https://youtu.be/qFxmxTC_K4s?si=ePbLhOENqp_jU6wM The concept of breath bears so much significance, carrying more purpose than simply physical. Invisible and transient, breath is a life-force sourced in eternity. The Hebrew word for breath is Ruach, and its connection to the Spirit of God Ruach… Continue reading Breath

Suggested Listening: “Doxology” by Phil Wickham https://youtu.be/J228TzlS9Co?si=JmxRFkSko62EyXN1 Praise God from whom all blessings flowPraise Him all creatures here belowPraise Him above you heavenly hostsPraise Father, Son, and Holy Ghost~Bishop Thomas Ken, c. 1674~ “Let praise … not merely thanksgiving, but praise—always form an ingredient of thy prayers.We thank God for what He is to us;… Continue reading Doxology