David Sandel

Wednesday, February 19, 2025 (click here to listen to or read today’s scriptures) While I’m traveling, here are the readings and a devotion from February 19, 2022 … Wisconsin dreams. Flawless. Be here now. “On the wind in February, snowflakes float still. Half inclined to turn to rain, nipping, dripping, chill.” – Christina Georgina...

Tuesday, February 18, 2025 (click here to listen to or read today’s scriptures) While I’m traveling, here are the readings and a devotion from February 18, 2022 … Climbing my own Mount Moriah Suppose a brother or sister is without clothes and daily food, and you say to them, “Go in peace, be warm...

Monday, February 17, 2025 (click here to listen to or read today’s scriptures) Murder Adam and Eve bore Cain. Eve said, “I have produced a man with the help of the Lord.” Next she bore his brother Abel. Soon Abel kept the flocks and Cain ploughed the ground. Both boys worked hard at the...

Sixth Sunday in Ordinary Time, February 16, 2025 (click here to listen to or read today’s scriptures) Blessed art thou Advice columnist Ann Landers published a syndicated column from 1943 till 2002. Here is one of her pointed responses to a question: Dear Ann Landers, I have a problem. I’m happily married to a...

Saturday, February 15, 2025 (click here to listen to or read today’s scriptures) Who told you? God is looking for his people, children he created from dust not so long ago. He does not see them in their usual place. He calls out, Where are you? Adam answered, I heard you in the garden,...

Friday, February 14, 2025 Memorial of Saints Cyril, Monk, and Methodius, Bishop Valentine’s Day (click here to listen to or read today’s scriptures) Ashamed The sacred is always brimming from the heart of everything. If what it means to be a mystic is to walk through this world looking through the eyes of love,...

Thursday, February 13, 2025 (click here to listen to or read today’s scriptures) Naked Humbly welcome the word that has been planted in you and is able to save your souls. In the beginning God. At times Genesis 1-3 uses the pronoun “we” in describing God; God was a community. Or a marriage. God...

Wednesday, February 12, 2025 (click here to listen to or read today’s scriptures) Eden The LORD God had sent no rain upon the earth, but a stream was welling up out of the earth and was watering all the surface of the ground. In Austin there has been a great rain for the past...

Tuesday, February 11, 2025 (click here to listen to or read today’s scriptures) Seventh day Let the water teem, let the birds multiply, let the earth bring forth. And so it happened. We have the opportunity for two weeks to meditate on the beginning of the world, on God’s creation in seven days, of...

Monday, February 10, 2025 Memorial of Saint Scholastica, Virgin (click here to listen to or read today’s scriptures) First day In the beginning God. And with that astonishing introduction, the creation of the world begins. First comes love, then comes marriage, then comes the baby in a baby carriage. That’s our little piece of...