desiring God … listening, waiting
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,...
Friday, April 4, 2025 (click here to listen to or read today’s scriptures) Arrested They tried to arrest Jesus, but no one laid a hand upon him because his hour had not yet come. I remember the experience. I wasn’t in charge of the motorcycle, but I was on it, and we were going...
Thursday, April 3, 2025 (click here to listen to or read today’s scriptures) Bridges Our fathers made a calf in Horeb and adored a molten image; they exchanged their glory for the image of a grass-eating bullock. They forgot the God who had saved them, and God spoke of exterminating them. The wall said...
Wednesday, April 2, 2025 (click here to listen to or read today’s scriptures) Wichita Say to the prisoners: Come out! To those in darkness, show yourselves! Along the highways they shall find pasture, on every bare height shall their pastures be, and they not hunger or thirst. What a strange day. I woke up...
Tuesday, April 1, 2025 (click here to listen to or read today’s scriptures) Depends Jesus saw him lying there and said, “Do you want to be well?” My own answer would depend on the day. And after thirty-eight years of being crippled like this man, most days I imagine I’d just shrug as he...
Posted on Mar 31, 2025
Complete list of March 2025 Daily Devotions with links March 1 Getting late March 2 A shaken sieve March 3 Baby March 4 Baby is here! March 5 Visit March 6 Fast March 7 Gymnastics March 8 Come and take it March 9 Moses speaks March 10 Kiss me March 11 Forgive March 12 ...
Posted on Mar 31, 2025
Haiku for every day of March 2025 March 1 Cozy day at home Baby will be coming soon We’ll rest while we can March 2 Aki dropped boys off Andi, baby, six A.M. Time to do this thing March 3 On this day, baby’s born Young man named Finn Satoshi Another...
Posted on Mar 31, 2025
Monday, March 31, 2025 (click here to listen to or read today’s scriptures) Grand Central Your son will live. In 1978 there were no cell phones. I found a phone booth in Grand Central Station and called my parents in Lincoln, Illinois. Mom answered the phone. After telling me they were skipping my cousin’s...
Posted on Mar 30, 2025
Fourth Sunday of Lent, March 30, 2025 (click here to listen to or read today’s scriptures) Words from Flannery O’Connor I will bless the Lord at all times; his praise shall be ever in my mouth. Let my soul glory in the Lord. March 25 was the 100th birthday of a writer who said...
Saturday, March 29, 2025 (click here to listen to or read today’s scriptures) Wordless 2 Come, let us return to the Lord. He has broken us but he will heal us. Here is a sweet poem by former pastor Steve Garnaas-Holmes: Gracious One, I imagine your sadness that we only pray for the stuff...
