desiring God … listening, waiting
Monday, January 13, 2025 Monday of the First Week in Ordinary Time (click here to listen to or read today’s scriptures) News that’s fit to print This is the time of fulfillment. The Kingdom of God is at hand. All day Saturday I thought about the fires in California. The University of Southern California ...
Sunday, January 12, 2025 The Baptism of Our Lord (click here to listen to or read today’s scriptures) Water and Spirit Here is my servant whom I uphold, my chosen one with whom I am pleased. Watching the College Football Playoff games, I thought how the crowd watching Jesus’ baptism wasn’t large. Those folks...
Saturday, January 11, 2025 Saturday after Epiphany (click here to listen to or read today’s scriptures) Fire Yesterday Andi’s sonogram showed a healthy baby. The boys spent the morning with us while Andi was at the doctor and working at school. Miles and Jasper helped us light the first fire of the winter in...
Friday, January 10, 2025 Friday after Epiphany (click here to listen to or read today’s scriptures) In the world Who indeed is the victor over the world? Plough Magazine often shares writing from Eberhart Arnold, theologian and founder of the Bruderhof in Germany. Today’s Bruderhof publishes the magazine. Here is something Herr Arnold wrote:...
Thursday, January 9, 2025 Thursday after Epiphany (click here to listen to or read today’s scriptures) Questions O God, with your judgment endow the king, and with your justice, the king’s son. This morning I finished listening to Pinocchio. Over and over I remembered pictures from the children’s version I read 65 years ago...
Posted on Jan 08, 2025
Wednesday, January 8, 2025 Wednesday after Epiphany (click here to listen to or read today’s scriptures) Something more like dancing No one has ever seen God. Yet, if we love one another, God remains in us, and his loveis brought to perfection in us. “There are times when a good struggle comes as one...
Tuesday, January 7, 2025 Tuesday after Epiphany (click here to listen to or read today’s scriptures) Weather Justice shall flower in his days, and profound peace, till the moon be no more. May he rule from sea to sea. On Monday night I carried in Margaret’s herbs along with her giant aloe vera and...
Monday, January 6, 2025 Day of Epiphany (also called Theophany) (click here to listen to or read today’s scriptures) Theophany What does this mean? Simple definition: a celebration of God manifesting as the Baby Jesus and revealing Himself to the world. And his commandment is this: we should believe in the name of his...
Sunday, January 5, 2025 The Epiphany of the Lord (observed) Twelfth Day of Christmas Twelfth Night (click here to listen to or read today’s scriptures) Suddenly Rise up in splendor, Jerusalem! Your light has come, the glory of the Lord shines upon you. Many years we can celebrate Epiphany twice, once on Sunday and...
Saturday, January 4, 2025 Memorial of Saint Elizabeth Ann Seton, Religious Eleventh Day of Christmas (click here to listen to or read today’s scriptures) Cotton candy Sing to the Lord a new song! We didn’t make it to the Liberty Hill Christmas festival in time to get cotton candy; the booths all closed by...
