David Sandel

Sunday, June 9, 2024 (click here to listen to or read today’s scriptures) First step is to pause I heard you in the garden, but I was afraid because I was naked, so I hid. I think this experience of Adam, alone in his dis-grace, broke the heart of Yahweh, his father. But God...

Saturday, June 8, 2024 Memorial of the Immaculate Heart of the Blessed Virgin Mary (click here to listen to or read today’s scriptures) Listening to God at 7 in the morning I charge you in the presence of God and of Christ Jesus, who will judge the living and the dead, and by his...

Friday, June 7, 2024 Solemnity of Sacred Heart of Jesus (click here to listen to or read today’s scriptures) Thinking things through When Israel was a child I loved him, out of Egypt I called my son. Yet it was I who taught Ephraim to walk, who took them in my arms. My Texas...

Thursday, June 6, 2024 (click here to listen to or read today’s scriptures) Quiet days with Jack and Aly The word of God is not chained. When Jack and Aly were babies, we drove to be with them while their parents were working. Our trip was 90 miles each way. We needed another car,...

Wednesday, June 5, 2024 Memorial of Saint Boniface, Bishop and Martyr (click here to listen to or read today’s scriptures) Mastering our tools as co-creators Ideas from Peter Mommsen: Crowd out the virtual with the real; be present in the physical world. Give the bulk of your attention to the people who are near...

Tuesday, June 4, 2024 (click here to listen to or read today’s scriptures) All of us are growing up Beloved: Wait for and hasten the coming of the day of God, because of which the heavens will be dissolved in flames and the elements melted by fire. But according to his promise we await...

Monday, June 3, 2024 (click here to listen to or read today’s scriptures) Earl and Mooch and the rest of us His divine power has bestowed on us everything that makes for life and devotion, through the knowledge of him who called us. He has bestowed on us his precious and very great promises....

Sunday June 2, 2024 The Solemnity of the Most Holy Body and Blood of Christ (Corpus Christi) (click here to listen to or read today’s scriptures) This is my blood We will do everything the Lord has told us. God’s patience is everlasting. Unlike mine. How many times have I said these very words...

Saturday, June 1, 2024 Memorial of Saint Justin, Martyr (click here to listen to or read today’s scriptures) The second part of this devotion, slightly changed, was first posted on June 1, 2022. Marc and Evie on vacation at last June 1, 2024 Keep yourselves in the love of God and wait for the...

Friday, May 31, 2024 Feast of the Visitation of the Blessed Virgin Mary (click here to listen to or read today’s scriptures) Praying with Jesus This devotion was first posted, with slight differences, on May 28, 2023. My soul proclaims the greatness of the Lord; my spirit rejoices in God my Savior. When Jesus...