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Focus Experience silence in the midst of your busy day. Take some time to relax into a time to be with God. Read Mark 9: 2-9 New Revised Standard Version 2 Six days later, Jesus took with him Peter and James and John, and led them up a high mountain apart, by themselves. And he was […]

Henry Thomas Woodside, 97, best known as Tom, was the oldest living member of Mt. Carmel Cumberland Presbyterian Church (Columbia Presbytery), where he served as an elder. Tom died January 28, 2021. He was a lifelong resident of Williamson County, Tennessee, and served in the U.S. Army during World War II. He loved the land […]

Jeff Orison Belue, 59, of Rogersville, Alabama, died February 7, 2021. He was an elder at Rogersville Cumberland Presbyterian Church (Hope Presbytery). Jeff devoted a great amount of time to coaching youth league sports, touching many lives.

Don Masters, 88, an elder at Brush Hill Cumberland Presbyterian Church (Nashville Presbytery), died of a heart attack February 15, 2021. Don was a faithful member of Brush Hill Cumberland Presbyterian church for over 60 years where he served in a number of ways. Variously, Don was an elder, a member of the building committee, […]

Focus Pay attention to the tension in your body. Let go of it and any expectations to do anything other than God’s will today. Prepare yourself to hear God’s word. Read Psalm 50:1-6 New Revised Standard Version A Psalm of Asaph. 1 The mighty one, God the Lord,    speaks and summons the earth    from the rising of the sun […]

Focus Slow your breathing and become aware of the taking in and letting out of your breath. Focus on putting things aside so you will be open to what God is saying to you today. Read 1 Kings 14: 1-18 New Revised Standard Version 14 At that time Abijah son of Jeroboam fell sick. 2 Jeroboam said to […]

Focus Prepare yourself to discern what is and what is not of God today. Still yourself so you can hear how God is calling you. Read 2 Corinthians 2: 12-17 New Revised Standard Version 12 When I came to Troas to proclaim the good news of Christ, a door was opened for me in the Lord; 13 but […]

Focus As you quiet yourself for this brief time, be willing to be open to God in whatever way that may take place. Read Job 6:1-13 New Revised Standard Version 6 Then Job answered: 2 “O that my vexation were weighed,    and all my calamity laid in the balances!3 For then it would be heavier than the sand of […]

Focus Let yourself become open to God and the knowledge that comes from the Word. Ask God for peace at this time. Read Acts 15:36-41 New Revised Standard Version 36 After some days Paul said to Barnabas, “Come, let us return and visit the believers in every city where we proclaimed the word of the Lord and […]

Kata Lou Ward, 69, known to most as Kay, died October 31, 2020. Kay was president of Cumberland Presbyterian Women for the 1999-2000 convention year. She was a fluent speaker and proud member of the Choctaw Nation. She was born to Sweeney E. and Mary Mae (Ward) Wilson July 6, 1951, in Broken Bow, Oklahoma. […]