Devotionals

Friday, Feb 12–Nena Our  Father Who Art In Heaven, Hallowed Be Thy Name… I learned the Lord’s Prayer as a young child.  Each night as the stars emerged I would kneel at the side of my wooden bed with my hands in a prayerful pose saying these words.  It has been more than a half-century […]

Thursday, February 11, 2016 When I was just 10 years old, I felt my first call to ministry.  Church was one of those places where I felt I could fully be myself, a place where I felt fully loved by what seemed like a whole lot of people. One of the things that I excelled […]

Ash Wednesday, February 10, 2016 In the day that the Lord God made the earth and the heavens, when no plant of the field was yet in the earth and no herb of the field had yet sprung up—for the Lord God had not caused it to rain upon the earth, and there was no […]

Sunday, April 5 “When the sabbath was over, Mary Magdalene, and Mary the mother of James, and Salome bought spices, so that they might go and anoint him. And very early on the first day of the week, when the sun had risen, they went to the tomb. They had been saying to one another, […]

Saturday, April 4 If you twist and turn away. It you tear yourself in two again. If I could, yes I would If I could, I would let it go. Surrender, dislocate. If I could throw this lifeless life-line to the wind. Leave this heart of clay, see you walk, walk away Into the night, […]

Friday, April 3 Matthew 26:36 Then Jesus went with them to a place called Gethsemane; and he said to his disciples, “Sit here while I go over there and pray.”     In the the garden   an old tree spoke.   Listening with my heart   I heard   words of fear   words […]

Thursday, April 2   …God is light and in him there is no darkness at all. If we say that we have fellowship with him while we are walking in darkness, we lie and do not do what is true… 1 John 5-6  This is an interesting passage to consider during Lent, when many churches […]

Wednesday, April 1   He called the crowd with his disciples, and said to them, ‘If any want to become my followers, let them deny themselves and take up their cross and follow me. 35For those who want to save their life will lose it, and those who lose their life for my sake, and for […]

Tuesday, March 31 Now the whole earth had one language and the same words. And as they migrated from the east, they came upon a plain in the land of Shinar and settled there. And they said to one another, “Come, let us make bricks, and burn them thoroughly.” And they had brick for stone, […]

Monday, March 30 Blessed as those who mourn, for they will be comforted.–Matthew 5 I have spiritual conversations with nature. Working in my garden I find a connection to God’s creation.  Enjoying a beautiful sunset, a bird that is passing by, or a butterfly landing on one of my flowers gives me joy, and it […]