desiring God … listening, waiting
Friday, January 3, 2025 Tenth Day of Christmas (click here to listen to or read today’s scriptures) Peacemakers If you consider that God is righteous, you also know that everyone who acts in righteousness is begotten by him. See what love the Father has bestowed on us that we may be called the children...
Thursday, January 2, 2025 Memorial of Saints Basil the Great and Gregory Nazianzen, Bishops and Doctors of the Church Ninth Day of Christmas (click here to listen to or read today’s scriptures) Vasilopita Sing to the Lord a new song, for he has done wondrous deeds. His right hand has won victory, his holy...
Posted on Jan 01, 2025
Haiku for every day of December 2024 December 1 Cones, church, chili, great talk Time with those folks just speeds by Lots of history December 2 Appointments all day Great to talk with all my friends Yes, I love this “job”! December 3 Last day Illinois Holidays, friends, family Couldn’t be...
Posted on Jan 01, 2025
Complete list of December 2024 Daily Devotions with links December 1 Day One December 2 Amish December 3 Justice and joy December 4 Learning to walk in the dark December 5 I contain multitudes December 6 Together again, and the food is still hot December 7 Rain for the seed December 8 Candles December...
Wednesday, January 1, 2025 Solemnity of the Blessed Virgin Mary, the Mother of God The Octave Day of Christmas New Year’s Day (click here to listen to or read today’s scriptures) First day When eight days were completed for his circumcision, he was named Jesus, the name given him by the angel before he...
Tuesday, December 31, 2024 Seventh Day of Christmas New Year’s Eve (click here to listen to or read today’s scriptures) I heard the bells Children, it is the last hour. I can’t get Longfellow’s Christmas carol out of my thoughts. And today I notice the lectionary reprises the first verses of the Gospel of...
Monday, December 30, 2024 Sixth Day of Christmas (click here to listen to or read today’s scriptures) Anchorites Do not love the world or the things of the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him. Yet the world and its enticement are passing away. Like every...
Sunday, December 29, 2024 Fifth Day of Christmas Feast of the Holy Family of Jesus, Mary and Joseph (click here to listen to or read today’s scriptures) See what love God sets a father in honor over his children, and a mother’s authority he confirms over her sons. In his book of Chicago stories...
Saturday, December 28, 2024 Fourth Day of Christmas Feast of the Holy Innocents, martyrs (click here to listen to or read today’s scriptures) Unholy debt A voice was heard in Ramah, sobbing and loud lamentation, Rachel weeping for her children, and she would not be consoled, since they were no more. The Holy Innocents?...
Friday, December 27, 2024 Third Day of Christmas Feast of Saint John, Apostle and evangelist (click here to listen to or read today’s scriptures) Three French hens We are writing this so that our joy may be complete. We played Christmas Jeopardy, and I buzzed in on the question, “How many piping pipers are...
