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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 Psalm 69:1-5, 30-36 (NRSV) Save me, O God, for the waters have come up to my neck. I sink […]

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 Psalm 43 (NRSV) Vindicate me, O God, and defend my cause against an ungodly people; from those who are […]

Focus Pay attention to the tension in your body. Let go of it and any expectations to do anything, but God’s will today. Prepare yourself to hear God’s word. Read John 8:12 (NRSV) Again Jesus spoke to them, saying, “I am the light of the world. Whoever follows me will never walk in darkness but […]

Focus Stop and thank God for being present with you today. Ask for God’s guidance as you hear God’s voice through scripture and the writer. Read John 1:1-14 (NRSV) In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was in the beginning with God. All things […]

Focus Experience silence in the midst of your busy day. Take some time to relax into a time to be with God. Read Ephesians 6:10-20 (NRSV) Finally, be strong in the Lord and in the strength of his power. Put on the whole armor of God, so that you may be able to stand against […]

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 Ephesians 5:6-20 (NRSV) Let no one deceive you with empty words, for because of these things the wrath of […]

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 1 John 2:7-11 (NRSV) Beloved, I am writing you no new commandment, but an old commandment that you have had from the beginning; the old commandment is the word […]

Focus Experience silence in the midst of your busy day. Take some time to relax into a time to be with God. Read Exodus 5:10-23 (NRSV) So the taskmasters and the supervisors of the people went out and said to the people, “Thus says Pharaoh, ’I will not give you straw. Go and get straw […]