The complete list of 2021 Devotions (with links)
JANUARY 2021
1/4 Active, loving, serving life
1/5 Five loaves, two fish and a blue wolf dog
1/6 Loving God, loving each other
1/7 Instructions for living life
1/8 Durable, undomesticated holiness
1/9 How to have a conversation
1/10 Down to the river
1/11 Let us commit unrecognized acts of imagination
1/12 How Christmas was different in 2020
1/15 Listen to the warm
1/16 Sort the stones, bake the bread
1/17 Do not restrain your lips
1/18 Kindness Day
1/19 Haiku for every day of December
1/20 Inauguration Day
1/21 Cinema paradiso
1/22 Life together
1/23 Healing in the tabernacle
1/25 My story, our story, The Story
1/26 Three questions to live by
1/27 Listen to the grass, growing
1/28 Into the deep
1/29 And God is happy
1/30 In the shelter of our Abba
FEBRUARY 2021
February 1 Listen to the God-breathed story
February 2 Tilting toward the sun
February 3 Nazarene nightmare, Nazarene dream
February 4 Take nothing for the journey
February 5 Hospitality behind a mask
February 6 Merely owning it can get you killed
February 7 More stories than could be written
February 8 Let there be, and let there be, and let there be
February 9 The seventh day
February 10 Free to eat
February 11 The name game
February 12 Death in the turning, and then life again
February 13 To dust you will return (Mardi Gras)
February 14 Cleanse me with hyssop
February 15 Haiku for every day of January 2021
February 16 Slip sliding away
February 17 Leave behind a blessing
February 18 West Texas blues
February 19 Count to four
February 20 I’m sorry … I love you
February 21 Songs in the desert
February 22 Simon, do you love me?
February 23 Catfish Parlour
February 24 Picnics in the sun
February 25 A morning walk with Esther
February 26 Crime and punishment
February 27 Weekend with our kids
February 28 Our days are just packed
MARCH 2021
March 1 If not love persevering
March 2 What have you ever lost by dying?
March 3 You seduced me, Lord
March 4 A vanishing trail
March 5 Follow your dreams
March 6 Lean on me
Complete list of February 2021 Daily Devotions with links
March 7 God’s ten words
March 8 Sit before the Mystery
March 9 Space to live again
March 10 Six steps of forgiveness
March 11 Listening in on a stirring conversation with General Jesus
March 12 Haiku for every day of February 2021
March 13 And on into eternity
March 14 We are all leaving now!
March 15 God is alive, magic is afoot
March 16 The best miracles
March 17 St. Patrick’s Day in the morning
March 18 Thinking about forever
March 19 Joy unspeakable
March 20 Guarding Jesus
March 21 Hot Springs past and present
March 22 O, what fools these mortals be!
March 23 Pizza under the trees
March 24 Riverrun, flow and flow, then pour into the sea
March 25 Worshipping in the Hill Country
March 26 Crazy cowboy country
March 27 Alone no longer
March 28 Dead man’s walk
March 29 Take and eat
March 30 Track the story with your nose
March 31 Track the story with your tongue
APRIL 2021
April 1 Track the story with your hands and feet
April 2 Track the story with your eyes
April 3 Track the story with your ears
April 4 Easter Track the story with your spirit
April 5 The empty clear, clean egg
April 6 Andi is 35 years old today
April 7 Blowing in the wind
April 8 Mortar and pestle
April 9 Coming to the light
April 10 Tangled threads
April 11 Sun Following Thomas
April 12 Canyon whispers
April 13 Haiku for every day of March 2021
April 14 Tell all the truth but tell it slant
April 15 Darkness now, then light
April 16 Wait for the Lord with courage
April 17 Snow crab on Avondale
April 18 Sun All aboard for the American tour
April 19 Stephen and the German immigrants
April 20 Falling into the arms of God
April 21 Putting my foot down
April 22 Let all the earth cry out to God with joy
April 23 In the morning when I rise
April 24 Deep peace in the beginning
April 25 Sun Matins
April 26 Poetry in motion
April 27 Listen to the trumpet of Jesus
April 28 Menagerie
April 29 First time fishing
April 30 Traveling with Marc
MAY 2021
May 1 Among the wildflowers
Sun, May 2 And to him my soul shall live
May 3 Footsteps on the mountain
May 4 Peace in the valley
May 5 Straight into a large tree
May 6 Let’s go fly a kite
May 7 Seek Him out, settle into rest
May 8 Prison to praise
Sun, May 9 Acts of God
May 10 Sabbath
May 11 Haiku for every day of April 2021
May 12 In him we live and move and have our being
May 13 Why not fly
May 14 If you wish to encounter God, touch another person
May 15 Secrets in the hourglass
Sun, May 16 Scrupulosity: Caught up in the mirrors
May 17 Traveling through the interior
May 18 Place between worlds
May 19 Choose community
May 20 Discussions with God
May 21 Enforced solitude
May 22 The Lord’s searching glance
Sun, May 23 Spring syrup
May 24 Choices that matter
May 25 Where does love go to hide
May 26 Good little Phil
May 27 What do you want me to do for you?
May 28 The glory of all his faithful
May 29 Live like a cicada: enter and exit singing
Sun, May 30 The simple life … now what ?
May 31 Memorial Day
JUNE 2021
June 1 Morning mass in Alabama
June 2 Just sit there in the morning sun
June 3 A wedding ring
June 4 Traveling with angels
June 5 Write down all these things
Sun, June 6 Hospital
June 7 Reach inside and heal her heart
June 8 Going slow in room 350
June 9 Getting married all over again
June 10 Long-stemmed red rose
June 11 For this reason we kneel before the Father
June 12 Flying wolf and Spotted Feather
Sun, June 13 Scattering seed … and then the harvest
June 14 A very acceptable time for salvation
June 15 Give Margaret a soft and clean heart
June 16 Last day in Room 350
June 17 On the morning of Margaret’s surgery
June 18 Where your treasure is, there your heart will be also
June 19 Flat down lying on her bed
Sun, June 20 Why are you afraid? Don’t you yet have faith?
June 21 No more breathing tube as the sun comes up in Austin
June 22 Quality time with Margaret
June 23 Margaret and the Commando Procedure
June 24 Margaret’s late night kiss from Jesus
June 25 Margaret refeathers her nest
June 26` Cover Margaret’s heart pillow with signatures and blessings
Sun, June 27 Loving Margaret’s lymph vessels
June 28 We have to see sick people, and you don’t qualify!
June 29 Give us this day our daily breath
June 30 Angie’s 99th birthday is today!
June 30 Haiku for every day of May 2021
June 30 Haiku for every day of June 2021
June 30 Complete list of June 2021 Daily Devotions with links
JULY 2021
July 1 Carrying the fire and the knife
July 2 Getting married, having children, the joy of the whole earth
July 3 Swimming in fifteen inches of water
Sun July 4 At least a little time with Audrey
July 5 Late night preachers and all night fireworks
July 6 “I’ll be here on discharge day”
July 7 Citizens of hospital culture
July 8 Seeing God, that’s my superpower
July 9 Miles and Jasper visit the hospital
July 10 It’s Blippi Day!
July 11 Take nothing with you for the journey
July 12 She’s in charge of celebrations
July 13 Listen for the voice of our Father
July 14 Margaret’s coming home on Saturday!
July 15 Getting to know our neighbors, who are leaving today
July 16 Smearing lamb’s blood on the hospital doorposts and lintel
July 17 Re-entry
July 18 The Lord is my shepherd
July 19 Breath of heaven
July 20 Meal train
July 21 We have company!
July 22 Loving our Lover
July 23 Silence, bourbon and the Ten Commandments
July 24 In your mercy, Lord
July 25 Let these gifts to us be blessed
July 26 Tender in the night
July 27 Thirsty in the tent of meeting
July 28 Get low, get down on God’s good footstool
July 29 Jasper is almost two!
July 30 God’s in charge of celebrations
July 31 Proclaim a jubilee!
AUGUST 2021
August 1 THIS world is not our home
August 2 Be here now. Let’s play!
August 3 Jesus walking in storms
August 4 Put your hand in the hand of the man
August 5 Moses and Peter say too much, get in trouble, and come right back for more
August 6 Stand up on your feet so you can bow and then fall flat prostrate on the floor
August 7 Don’t look now, but you’re asleep!
August 8 Golden boy pays for his strawberries, and is happy
August 9 I can’t change without God
August 10 A few laughs out by the barbeque
August 11 Moses died high above the Jordan River … o rock a my soul
August 12 Learning to live in the Kingdom of heaven
August 13 Stand in silence up on the hill, living with my questions
August 14 Following trails left by the saints, who followed trails left by Jesus
August 15 Death comes for Sir Walter Wangerin
August 16 Storms and sun, the horizon clears
August 17 Late night adventures with Gideon and his mighty ten
August 18 Someone’s living and, o gosh, it’s me
August 19 Getting married for the forty-third time
August 20 Naomi and Ruth walk back to Bethlehem, and I want to feel the dusty they felt under their feet
August 21 Traveling among the saints
August 22 Bunked down in Rolla, curled up listening for Jesus
August 23 In which Aly Grace gets a necklace, we eat Illinois State Fair food, and ride the tram
August 24 Looking for Ezekiel
August 25 Spending the day with a houseful of living souls
August 26 Living and dying in the dark grass fields
August 27 Ribeyes in the rain with Marc
August 28 Augustine weeps, “Thou didst touch me, and I burned for thy peace”
August 29 How to feel your soul being saved
August 30 We who are alive will be caught up with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air
August 31 Sitting under the tree with Jonah, waiting for the sun
August 31 Haiku for every day of August 2021
SEPTEMBER 2021
September 1 Marc doesn’t waste a day
September 2 Boxfuls of Jasper and rainbow cheesecake too
September 3 The rings on the tree go round and round
September 4 Ripe fields for harvest
September 5 Stand up on those promises, hear the whispers of the wind
September 6 This body of Christ on earth
September 7 This man does all things well
September 8 When a woman loves a man
September 9 Prison wedding
September 10 Gravestones along the eternal road
September 11 Settling onto a good foundation
September 12 Walking in the slowly-getting-cooler Austin evening
September 13 Timothy reads a letter alone in the marketplace
September 14 Get up, stand up, don’t give up the fight
September 15 The mystery of faith: out of sorrow rises joy
September 16 The days are just packed
September 17 Lay hold of eternal life
September 18 A rule of life
September 19 Where do the wars among you come from?
September 21 Go up into the hill country
September 22 Children, go where I send thee
September 23 Sitting with Paul, waiting for words to share with his friends
September 24 In my Father’s house are many mansions
September 25 Learning to live like a believer
September 26 Joys and sorrows are quickly forgotten, in favor of what is coming next
September 27 Let all guests who arrive be received like Christ
September 28 Sharing my life with Jesus, using two ears and one mouth
September 29 Careful now, there’s angels in that there sky
September 30 Singing a song from the pulpit
September 30 Haiku for every day of September 2021
OCTOBER 2021
October 1 Doing the work that we can do
October 2 Stories from the back of the room
October 3 Let your bending in the Archer’s hand be for gladness
October 4 In the belly, in the belly, Jonah in the belly of the whale
October 5 Sitting up all night with Jonah
October 6 The last of Jonah’s three days and nights at Nineveh, and it’s a good one
October 7 Pursue goodness, truth and beauty. Pursue, pursue, and never stop
October 8 By virtue of my wordy prayers
October 9 Between the alpha and the omega
October 10 Facing up, and giving God time to be with me
October 11 Take courage, put some words out there and listen to what happens next
October 12 If you’re happy and you know it, clap your hands
October 13 Let’s skip over the judgment thing and just be loved
October 14 Sitting on the couch with John
October 15 Heading south
October 16 Crawdads, black mussels and ice cream
October 17 James and John, bodyguards for Jesus
October 18 Luke is the only one with me
October 19 The Master is coming, the Master is coming, never give up hope
October 21 Riding along in my automobile
October 22 How then shall we live?
October 23 I’m a little fig tree, short and stout
October 24 Everything in the lectionary is so positive today, even Jeremiah
October 25 God and our prophetic imagination
October 26 From Texas to Alaska, and back again
October 27 Revelation at sunset beside the pig pen
October 28 Exploring the shadowlands
October 29 I think I can, I think I can
October 30 Happiness runs in a circular motion
October 31 Miles and Jasper’s first sleepover, winding down
October 31 Haiku for every day of October 2021
October 31 Complete list of October 2021 Daily Devotions with links
NOVEMBER 2021
November 1 Sounding from the dense population of heaven, these words of love
November 2 He maketh me to lie down in green pastures
November 3 A good measure, pressed down, shaken together and running over
November 4 Baa, baa, black sheep, have you any wool?
November 5 Night walk
November 6 Red fish, orange fish
Sun Nov 7 La Condesa and Alton Brown at Austin City Limits
November 8 Visiting the International House of Prayer in Kansas City
November 9 How do I catch the wave when I’m waiting for God?
November 10 The University of Austin, Heterodox Academy, and the waterfall
November 11 Your face is all I seek
November 12 Piano music under a big, blue sky
November 13 Living the questions, listening for answers
Sun Nov 14 Consider the birds of the air
November 15 A pound of white beans for the blind man, please
November 16 All day singing around the throne
November 17 On the occasion of my 72nd birthday, thank you Mama
November 18 Children who are truly loved know they are valuable
November 19 Mom’s funeral will be a joyous one, I think
November 20 Heavenly coronation service for Angelina Sandel, 6-30-1922 – 11-10-2021
Sun Nov 21 Working slowly back to the land of the living
November 22 Speaking out to myself, taking a few first steps
November 23 A pilgrim’s progress: seeking to understand Mom’s communion verse
November 24 Margaret’s words on Monday night
November 25 John shows up twice, in the middle of God’s planting season
November 26 Meditation on the Lord’s Prayer for Thanksgiving Day
November 27 Let the celebrations begin
Sun Nov 28 Join hands and celebrate the birth of Jesus
November 29 Let us climb the Lord’s mountain
November 30 Let the words of my mouth
November 30 Complete list of November 2021 Daily Devotions with links
November 30 Haiku for every day of November 2021
DECEMBER 2021
December 1 The desert gets cold in December, but there’s a fire
December 2 Choosing a narrow gate
December 3 The Lord is my light
December 4 Learning to walk in the dark
December 5 I contain multitudes
December 6 Together again, and the food is still hot
December 7 Comfort ye my people
December 8 Let it be done unto me
December 9 Doesn’t everything die at last, and too soon?
December 10 John shows up twice, in the middle of God’s planting season (revisited)
December 11 Let’s go fly a kite, up to the highest height and send it soaring
December 12 Rise for the creed, kneel for the prayers
December 13 Leaving a little room for God to love me
December 14 Forgotten among the lilies
December 15 Let the clouds rain down the Just One, and the earth bring forth a Savior
December 16 Though the wrong seems oft so strong, God is the ruler yet
December 17 Devoted pilgrims wander, and settle down to have a baby
December 18 They shall call his name Justice
December 19 Airplane crashes, Advent, and the birth of Jesus
December 20 Hail Mary, full of grace, the Lord is with thee
December 21 Winter solstice dreams
December 22 There will be time, there will be time
December 23 On the road to Bethlehem
December 24 Lights spectacular in Johnson City
December 25 Up on the housetop, click, click, click
December 26 It’s a wonderful life
December 27 Life … Life!
December 28 She would not be consoled
December 29 Living in the light
December 30 In the beginning was the Word
December 31 I pray the Lord my soul to keep
December 31 Haiku for every day of December 2021
December 31 Complete list of December 2021 Daily Devotions with links
