desiring God … listening, waiting
Posted on Apr 08, 2026
Wednesday of Easter Week, April 8, 2026 (click here to listen to or read today’s scriptures) Sitting with our cardiologist (part 1) We wore our Final Four orange shirts, Margaret and I, and we got noticed. Our hearts had been pounding all season, and now in Austin, we were not even slightly alone. A...
Easter Tuesday, April 7, 2026 (click here to listen to or read today’s scriptures) Who are you again? Mary Magdalene stayed outside the tomb weeping. And as she wept, she bent over into the tomb and saw two angels in white sitting there, one at the head and one at the feet where the...
Posted on Apr 06, 2026
Easter Monday, April 6, 2026 This is the Octave of Easter This is also Andi’s birthday … (click here to listen to or read today’s scriptures) Artist in a mama’s smock A few words from the past … on Andi’s birthday … 2007 Andi graduated from high school last year, member of the National...
Tuesday of Holy Week, March 31, 2026 (click here to listen to or read today’s scriptures) What next? Hear me, O islands, listen, O distant peoples. The LORD called me from birth, from my mother’s womb he gave me my name. Last day of the month. Two days before Holy Thursday. When we...
Monday of Holy Week, March 30, 2026 (click here to listen to or read today’s scriptures) Passover begins Wednesday … Six days before Passover Jesus came to Bethany, where Lazarus was, whom Jesus had raised from the dead. Passover (in Hebrew, the word is pasach) begins this year at sundown on Wednesday, April 1....
Palm Sunday of the Lord’s Passion, March 29, 2026 (click here to listen to or read today’s scriptures) Final four The tattered little man rides his donkey, as if a king. Onlookers humor us. “Hail!,” they laugh, pouring another beer. He is the farthest from their minds. But he is not far from...
Saturday, March 28, 2026 (click here to listen to or read today’s scriptures) Come forth! You walk into Jerusalem, Jesus, with a price on your head. The crowds cry “Hosanna!” Your disciples are wary. And all you see are the people who need you … Lazarus and his sisters needed you. Jesus looked up and...
Posted on Mar 27, 2026
Friday, March 27, 2026 (click here to listen to or read today’s scriptures) Jeremiah, Jesus and Dorothy Day I hear the whisperings of many … terror on every side … all those who were my friends. But the Lord is with me like a mighty champion, and my prosecutors will fail. They will stumble...
Posted on Mar 26, 2026
Thursday, March 19, 2026 (click here to listen to or read today’s scriptures) The Lord draws Abram’s forehead to the ground It’s in Genesis 17, one third of the way through the longest book in the Torah. Abram prostrated himself, and God spoke to him. This is my covenant with you: you will become...
Wednesday, March 25, 2026 Solemnity of the Annunciation of the Lord (click here to listen to or read today’s scriptures) Overshadowed The angel Gabriel was sent from God to a town of Galilee called Nazareth, to a virgin betrothed to a man named Joseph, of the house of David, and the virgin’s name was...
