A Lenten Devotion by Fran Bogle The next day the great crowd that had come to the festival heard that Jesus was coming to Jerusalem. So they took branches of palm trees and went out to meet him, shouting, ‘Hosanna! Blessed is the one who comes in the name of God-the King of Israel!’ John 12:12-19 This […]
Devotionals
Multiple Layers
A Lenten Devotion by Rick Seaholm Before the mountains were brought forth, or ever you had formed the earth and the world, from everlasting to everlasting you are God. Psalm 90:2 I remember elements of that summer vividly. 1994: the final summer of my childhood. Well, to be perfectly honest, it may have been 1993. […]
Magnolia
A Lenten Devotion by Joanie White …it shall blossom abundantly, and rejoice with joy and singing. Isaiah 35:2a Sometimes reading a Lenten Devotion stirs our own memories. After reading Frank Carney’s story about “Tree” last week, Joanie White wrote him this letter, sharing her own memory: Hi Frank, I trust this finds you well. I […]
Faith into Action
A Lenten Devotion by Willie Sordillo The earth brought forth vegetation: plants yielding seed of every kind, and trees of every kind bearing fruit with the seed in it. And God saw that it was good. Genesis 1:12 We’ve considered “a grove of trees” from a variety of perspectives during this Lenten season. This has […]
The Old Farmhouse
A Lenten Devotion by Karen Nell Smith As I watched in the night visions… Daniel 7:13 When the end is clear, the present takes on infinitely more meaning. For 20 years, my parents lived in an old farmhouse. We loved that place…surrounded by rolling green fields, a huge red barn, an icy cold Vermont stream […]
Path of Life
A Lenten Devotion by Art Norton You show me the path of life. In your presence there is fullness of joy; in your right hand are pleasures for evermore. Psalm 16:11 Show us, O God, the path of life. Amen.
Cherry Blossoms
A Lenten Devotion by Janet Sanders This is my commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you. No one has greater love than this, to lay down one’s life for one’s friends. You are my friends if you do what I command you. John 15: 12-14 I have always been fascinated with […]
Pruning and Grafting
A Lenten Devotion by Mary Memmott But if some of the branches were broken off, and you, a wild olive shoot, were grafted in their place to share the rich root of the olive tree, do not boast over the branches. If you do boast, remember that it is not you that support the root, […]
Tree Houses
A Lenten Devotion by Jenny Allen …you shall be called the repairer of the breach… Isaiah 58:12b “My friend has been promoted from a tent to a tree house!” My daughter was excited for her former co-worker who is studying the activists in the Hambach Forest in Germany who have “occupied” trees there since 2012 […]
Snow Ladies
A Lenten Devotion by Jan Adams God gives snow like wool; and scatters frost like ashes. Psalm 147:16 Slender stately birches bow slowlyto the ground in homage.Still the snow comes downPiling high on their arched backs. Heads touching the groundsilently quietly listeningfor a sign of new life.Praying for the green mantles of spring. Swaying ever […]