desiring God … listening, waiting
Tuesday, March 18, 2025 (click here to listen to or read today’s scriptures) Words Do and observe all things whatsoever they tell you, but do not follow their example. For they preach but do not practice. Always I have been fascinated by words, the interplay of nouns and verbs, adjectives and prepositions, expletives and...
Posted on Mar 17, 2025
Monday, March 17, 2025 St. Patrick’s Day (click here to listen to or read today’s scriptures) Finn’s cousins Not only does Finn have two big brothers, but he has two cousins who live in Illinois, and who came to visit yesterday. Chris’ family arrived around midnight on Sunday and will leave around 6 pm...
Second Sunday of Lent, March 16, 2025 (click here to listen to or read today’s scriptures) Moonlight Look up at the sky and count the stars, if you can. Last week’s full moon, blood red to those who could see, was totally eclipsed for about an hour on Thursday night. It was cloudy in...
Saturday, March 15, 2025 (click here to listen to or read today’s scriptures) Strawberries This day the Lord commands you to observe these statutes and decrees. Be careful, then, to observe them with all your heart and with all your soul. Yesterday was Pi Day, 3-14, and our hospitable apartment managers served us pizza...
March 14, 2025 Second day of the Festival of Purim (click here to listen to or read today’s scriptures) Litany of Humility If you, O Lord, mark iniquities, Lord, who can stand? My friend and fellow writer Don Follis shared his early morning Lenten prayer, written by a Catholic cardinal named Rafael Merry del...
March 13, 2025 The Festival of Purim (click here to listen to or read today’s scriptures) Esther Queen Esther, seized with mortal anguish, had recourse to the LORD. She lay prostrate upon the ground, together with her handmaids, from morning until evening, and said: “God of Abraham, God of Isaac, and God of Jacob,...
March 12, 2025 (click here to listen to or read today’s scriptures) Sackcloth and mercy Jonah began his journey through Nineveh and had gone but a single day’s walk, crying out “Forty more days and Nineveh shall be destroyed!” Jonah didn’t want to go, Jonah wanted the Ninevites to be destroyed, he must have...
March 11, 2025 (click here to listen to or read today’s scriptures) Forgive If you forgive men their transgressions, your heavenly Father will forgive you. But if you do not forgive men, neither will your Father forgive you.” Last week there were several moments when my grandson took offense at something I said or...
Monday, March 10, 2025 (click here to listen to or read today’s scriptures) Kiss Me Behold, now is a very acceptable time; behold, now is the day of salvation. Can I be too courteous with God? What happens to me when I mean to be sincere, but by force of habit I eventually just...
First Sunday of Lent, March 9, 2025 (click here to listen to or read today’s scriptures) Moses speaks Moses spoke to the people. When the Egyptians oppressed us we cried out to the Lord and he heard our cry. He brought us out of Egypt with strong hand and outstretched arm, with terrifying power,...
