David Sandel

Friday, February 28, 2025 (click here to listen to or read today’s scriptures) While I’m traveling, here are the readings and a devotion from February 28, 2022 … A new birth to a living hope Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who in his great mercy gave us an...

Thursday, February 27, 2025 (click here to listen to or read today’s scriptures) While I’m traveling, here are the readings and a devotion from February 27, 2022 … Catching hold of the golden ring … it’s all good When a sieve is shaken, the husks appear. Way back awhile, in 2011 … 2012, I...

Wednesday, February 26, 2025 (click here to listen to or read today’s scriptures) While I’m traveling, here are the readings and a devotion from February 26, 2022 … Listen to the trumpet of Jesus, while the world hears a different sound Beloved, is anyone among you suffering, is anyone in good spirits, is anyone...

Tuesday, February 25, 2025 (click here to listen to or read today’s scriptures) Bookshelves Both in Austin and in Urbana our bookshelves are full. Cookbooks, like the Nero Wolfe Cookbook and The American Diner Cookbook. Autobiographies, like Report to Greco by Nikos Kazantzakis, A View from the Ridge by Morris West, The Milagro Bean...

Monday, February 24, 2025 (click here to listen to or read today’s scriptures) Jack is sixteen, going on seventeen Before all other things wisdom was created, prudent understanding from eternity. Pretty special day for our oldest grandchild, Jac , who is not a child anymore. Because he has had a learner’s permit for several...

Seventh Sunday in Ordinary Time, February 23, 2025 (click here to listen to or read today’s scriptures) Cosmic egg  Nineteenth century philosopher and theologian Soren Kierkegaard invented existentialism. He also suggested an egg to describe the way we grow through (his terms) the aesthetic (desire for everything), the ethical (duty) to the religious (taking...

Saturday, February 22, 2025 Feast of the Chair of Saint Peter, Apostle (click here to listen to or read today’s scriptures) Hog Hollow Road The Lord is my shepherd, I shall not want. He makes me lie down in green pastures, he leads me beside still waters, he restores my soul. What better place...

Friday, February 21, 2025 (click here to listen to or read today’s scriptures) While I’m traveling, here are the readings and a devotion from February 21, 2022 … Transferring trust to Jesus The wisdom from above is first of all pure, then peaceable, gentle, compliant, full of mercy and good fruits, without inconstancy or...

Thursday, February 20, 2025 (click here to listen to or read today’s scriptures) While I’m traveling, here are the readings and a devotion from February 20, 2022 … David hears a whisper in the stars Only the sounds of desert insects broke the silence. David followed his cousin Abishai down from their hilltop camp...