desiring God … listening, waiting
Monday of Holy Week, April 14, 2025 (click here to listen to or read today’s scriptures) Desert A bruised reed he shall not break and a smoldering wick he shall not quench, until he establishes justice on the earth. The coastlands will wait for his teaching. And this teaching begins in the desert. Jesus...
Palm Sunday of the Lord’s Passion, April 13, 2025 (click here to listen to or read today’s scriptures) Ocean “Why are you untying this colt?” They answered, “The Master has need of it.” So they brought it to Jesus, threw their cloaks over the colt, and helped Jesus to mount. As he rode along,...
Saturday, April 12, 2025 (click here to listen to or read today’s scriptures) Full flood I will make with you a covenant of peace; it shall be an everlasting covenant with you, and I will multiply you, and put my sanctuary among you forever. My dwelling shall be with you; I will be your...
Friday, April 11, 2025 (click here to listen to or read today’s scriptures) Mirror I hear the whisperings of many: “Terror on every side! Denounce! let us denounce him!” All those who were my friends are on the watch for any misstep of mine. Next Friday is a day to recognize our own villainy....
Thursday, April 10, 2025 (click here to listen to or read today’s scriptures) Rest When, like last night, I am so tired I can’t quite stand up, when I get dizzy just taking a few steps and have to stop for a moment, I think of Psalm 90. Like the new grass of the...
Wednesday, April 9, 2025 (click here to listen to or read today’s scriptures) Fire in the hearth Be ready now to fall down and worship the statue I had made, otherwise, you shall be instantly cast into the white-hot furnace, and who is the God who can deliver you out of my hands? So...
Tuesday, April 8, 2025 (click here to listen to or read today’s scriptures) Watch and pray With their patience worn out by the journey, the people complained against God and Moses, “Why have you brought us up from Egypt to die in this desert, where there is no food or water? We are disgusted...
Monday, April 7, 2025 (click here to listen to or read today’s scriptures) Promise The Lord is my shepherd, I shall not want. We spent a breezy September Tuesday driving from Urbana through beautiful country, further and further south to Nashville. It was 2011, and we were registered for our first World Conference of...
Fifth Sunday of Lent, April 6, 2025 Andi’s birthday (click here to listen to or read today’s scriptures) Birthday See, I am doing something new! Now it springs forth, do you not perceive it? We have been watching video from 37 years ago, watching Andi in play therapy with her teacher from Illinois State...
Saturday, April 5, 2025 (click here to listen to or read today’s scriptures) On Death and Dying I am like a trusting lamb led to slaughter. In you I take refuge, O Lord; rescue me lest I become like the lion’s prey, to be torn to pieces. Elisabeth Kübler-Ross’s model of grief (DABDA): denial,...
