desiring God … listening, waiting
Wednesday, February 11, 2026 (click here to listen to or read today’s scriptures) Teeth The mouth of the just man tells of wisdom and his tongue utters what is right. The law of his God is in his heart, and his steps do not falter … The mouth of the just murmurs wisdom. On...
Tuesday, February 10, 2026 Memorial of Saint Scholastica, Virgin (click here to listen to or read today’s scriptures) 1775 … 1776 …1777 … For God has bound everyone over to disobedience so that he may have mercy on them all. – Paul, Romans 11 Watching PBS and Ken Burns’ The American Revolution last night,...
Monday, February 9, 2026 (click here to listen to or read today’s scriptures) Hands out There was nothing in the ark but the two stone tablets which Moses had put there at Horeb, when the Lord made a covenant with the children of Israel at their departure from the land of Egypt. Nothing else...
Saturday, February 7, 2026 (click here to listen to or read today’s scriptures) Dreaming with Solomon The Lord appeared to Solomon in a dream. At night. One of my favorite blog writers is also a mother of three boys. She is also our daughter. She hasn’t written in awhile. She plays as much as...
Friday, February 6, 2026 Memorial of Saint Paul Miki and Companions, Martyrs (click here to listen to or read today’s scriptures) Be still Blessed are they who have kept the word with a generous heart, and yield a harvest through perseverance. Be. My chaplain friend Chris and I saw a film called Silence together...
Thursday, February 5, 2026 Memorial of Saint Agatha, Virgin and Martyr (click here to listen to or read today’s scriptures) Agatha When the time of David’s death drew near, he gave these instructions to his son Solomon: “I am going the way of all flesh.” Saint Agatha died in prison in 251 A.D., a...
Wednesday, February 4, 2026 (click here to listen to or read today’s scriptures) Curling When the angel stretched forth his hand toward Jerusalem to destroy it, the LORD regretted the calamity and said to the angel causing the destruction among the people, “Enough now! Stay your hand.” Curling, which Canadian author Louise Penny called...
Tuesday, February 3, 2026 (click here to listen to or read today’s scriptures) Four movements Is young Absalom safe? David’s messenger didn’t think of David’s love for his son. The Cushite knew what had happened to the rebellious kid and was pretty happy about it: His hair caught fast in a terebinth tree. He...
Monday, February 2, 2026 Feast of the Presentation of the Lord (click here to listen to or read today’s scriptures Simeon’s song In the early 1980’s my brother John and his wife Karen asked Margaret and I to be godparents for Matthew Shane, their second baby. We stood beside them at the baptismal font...
Fourth Sunday in Ordinary Time, February 1, 2026 (click here to listen to or read today’s scriptures) Open prison doors Seek the LORD, all you humble of the earth, who have observed his law; seek justice, seek humility; perhaps you may be sheltered on the day of the LORD’s anger. So many years, so...
