Devotionals

Bing Crosby’s https://youtu.be/moHobaO9TlM?si=M8EMag0i1Ay_R8Qp The fall colors are still swirling around us, and our leaves yet need to be raked up, my dahlia tubers dug up and garlic cloves planted before the impending freeze of the season, and yet the commercial world of Christmas is popping up in the aisles. While radio stations may be holding… Continue reading Silent Night

https://youtu.be/IoHHsQg8pYY?si=AUUa9z61zKQvgrxw “Lord, you have been our dwelling place throughout all generations.”~Psalm 90:1~ “And so there would always be more to remember that could no longer be seen.This is one of the things I can tell you that I have learned:our life here is in some way marginal to our own doings,and our doings are marginal… Continue reading Shelter

https://youtu.be/JKmqyQUDehs?si=cKV9K40jF5tQuxgM “Oh, Marilla, I’m so glad I live in a world where there are Octobers!”~L.M.Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables~  “Mrs. Miniver suddenly understood why she was enjoying the forties so much better than she had enjoyed the thirties:  it was the difference between August and October,between the heaviness of late summer and the sparkle of… Continue reading October

https://youtu.be/Y7VeP6a9mU0?si=etoOVgwP1nKlB13K “Give them wisdom and devotion in the ordering of their common life,that each may be to the other a strength in need,a counselor in perplexity, a comfort in sorrow, and a companion in joy.”~The Book of Common Prayer~ I had awakened, at last having slept. But my dreams had filled me with exhaustion. In… Continue reading In Everything

https://youtu.be/L0csB3us2gA?feature=shared   “The line of its [the leaf’s] flight was the arabesque at the end of a chapter,the final scroll under the death-warrant of summer.”~Jan Struther, Mrs. Miniver, p.171~ “Teach us to number our days,That we may gain a heart of wisdom.”~Psalm 90:12~ Who doesn’t like to keep their lives in some orderly fashion? Especially… Continue reading Overcome

“Give us this day our daily bread.”~Matthew 6:11~ Just as we can play beautiful music only when the strings on the violin are in proper tension,so we can grow only when we are stretched from what we are to what we can be.There is no growth without tension.”~J. Grant Howard~ Like many, I suppose, I… Continue reading Benediction

https://youtu.be/kSVYsqhBdPc?si=uxc_QiWkO3Pbhs-n “To write you must learn quiet.This is hard, because the world we live in is loud.”~Suzanne Rhodes, The Roar on the Other Side~ Standing on the precipice, I looked over the cliff twenty feet below. I froze with fear, my feet rooting themselves to the rock edge and my body shaking. I could vaguely… Continue reading Jump

https://youtu.be/L0csB3us2gA?feature=shared https://youtu.be/bYrcrP1ysjw?si=ARutqV7uS-saqLlo “I am overwhelmed with troubles and my life draws near to death…You have overwhelmed me with all your waves…You rule over the surging sea;when its waves mount up, you still them.”~Psalm 88:3, 7; 89:9~ “The name of the Lord is a strong tower;the righteous run to it and are safe.”~Proverbs 18:8~ Are you… Continue reading Safe

Everything We Need, https://youtu.be/C8fTEyGe0M8?si=yMplHZb_bcJuIDg0 “His divine power has given us everything we need for a godly lifethrough our knowledge of him who called us by his own glory and goodness.”~2 Peter 1:3~ “Count it all joy, my brothers, when you meet trials of various kinds,for you know that the testing of your faith produces steadfastness.And… Continue reading The Other Side

https://youtu.be/TfiYWaeAcRw?si=7tgXax0KJv0T-MbL “They were to carry on their shoulders the holy things,For which they were responsible.”~Numbers 7:9~ “They shall bring your sons in their arms,And thy daughters shall be carried upon thy shoulders.”~Isaiah 49:22~  There is the well-known poem, “Footprints in the Sand” by Mary Stevenson, the setting in which the author dreamed of walking on… Continue reading Carried