Devotionals

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 […]

A Lenten Devotion by Ricky Kliem Consider Assyria, a cedar of Lebanon,with fair branches and forest shade,and of great height,its top among the clouds. Ezekiel 31:3 God of all lands and peoples, may we honor the strength and beauty of our neighbors—trees and mountains and human beings. Amen.

A Lenten Devotion by Karen Nell Smith The Lord appeared to Abraham by the oaks of Mamre, as he sat at the entrance of his tent in the heat of the day. He looked up and saw three men standing near him. When he saw them, he ran from the tent entrance to meet them, […]

A Lenten Devotion by Heather McGraw In the beginning when God created the heavens and the earth, the earth was a formless void and darkness covered the face of the deep, while a wind from God swept over the face of the waters. Genesis 1:1 I have a well-worn book which belonged to my Dad, […]

A Lenten Devotion by Cindy Sweeney The glory of Lebanon shall come to you,the cypress, the plane, and the pine,to beautify the place of my sanctuary;and I will glorify where my feet rest. Isaiah 60:13 When I think of a grove of trees it brings memories of the pine grove at my grandparents’. I spent wondrous days climbing […]