Devotionals

A Lenten Devotion Let everything that breathes praise our God! Psalm 149:6 When someone first told me that trees breathe, I was skeptical. I know trees are well-evolved to collect, store and move liquids. Consider the maple tree and the flow of sap. But breathing?  I didn’t grow up understanding Lent, and from what I’ve […]

A Lenten Devotion by Art Norton For Wisdom is a breath of the power of God, and a pure emanation of the glory of the Almighty; therefore nothing defiled gains entrance into her. For she is a reflection of eternal light, a spotless mirror of the working of God, and an image of his goodness. […]

A Lenten Devotion by Norma Hart Then God said, “Let the earth put forth vegetation: plants yielding seed, and fruit trees of every kind on the earth that bear fruit with the seed in it.” And it was so. Genesis 1: 11 Once upon a time before 1960, where my street and its houses now […]

A Lenten Devotion by Ruth Garrigan-Byerly God is your keeper; God is your shade at your right hand. The sun shall not strike you by day, nor the moon by night. Psalm 121:5-6 Church is like a tree because we are like the leaves and the branches are like the things that connect us and […]

A Lenten Devotion by Paul Blow Remember the days of old;Consider the years of many generations;ask your father, and he will show you,your elders, and they will tell you. Deuteronomy: 32:7 Trees transgress time. They connect us to history and make “what was”, very real. They are living memory. This is the Armada Tree, located […]

A Lenten Devotion by Bette Norton A shoot shall come out from the stump of Jesse, and a branch shall grow out of his roots. Isaiah 11:1 I have always loved trees from as far back as I can remember. I found beauty and strength in them. The woods were always my favorite place to […]

A Lenten Devotion by Mary Memmott Then they came to Elim, where there were twelve sprints of water and seventy palm trees; and they camped there by the water. Exodus 15:27 A letter to the editor, written by Mary Memmot, for the Worcester Telegram this summer, in response to an article about planting a trillion […]

A Lenten Devotion by Joe Hudock And these are the ones sown on good soil, they hear the word and accept it and bear fruit, thirty and sixty and one hundred fold. Mark 4:20 God’s Kingdom…I was planted in fertile soilAmong a grove of treesSheltered and protected This is God’s KingdomThis is the truthI was watered […]

A Lenten Devotion by Fran Bogle How blessed is the one who finds wisdom and the one who gains understanding. For wisdom is better than the profit of silver and better than fine gold. Wisdom is more precious than jewels; Nothing you desire compares. Long life is in wisdom’s right hand; In the left are […]

A Lenten Devotion by Karen Albee You paid careful attention to the way we lived among you, and determined to live that way yourselves. In imitating us, you imitated the Master. 1Thessalonians 1: 5 (The Message) As I stood in the kitchen of the Education Building with a few other community members, I felt like […]