11Jan 27, 2019
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 Psalm 19 (NRSV) To the leader. A Psalm of David. The heavens are telling the glory of God; and the firmament[a] proclaims his handiwork. Day to day pours forth […]
12Jan 26, 2019
Focus Experience silence in the midst of your busy day. Take some time to relax into a time to be with God. Read Luke 2:39-52 (NRSV) When they had finished everything required by the law of the Lord, they returned to Galilee, to their own town of Nazareth. The child grew and became strong, filled […]
13Mar 7, 2018
Focus Let yourself become open to God and the knowledge that comes from the Word. Ask God for peace at this time. Read Psalm 84 (NRSV) How lovely is your dwelling place, O LORD of hosts! My soul longs, indeed it faints for the courts of the LORD; my heart and my flesh sing for […]
14Feb 25, 2018
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 Genesis 17:1-7 (NRSV) When Abram was ninety-nine years old, the LORD appeared to Abram, and said to him, “I am God Almighty; walk before […]
15Dec 22, 2017
Focus Take a few minutes to push the “pause” button on whatever is going on around you and be still with God. Read Galatians 4:1-7 (NRSV) My point is this: heirs, as long as they are minors, are no better than slaves, though they are the owners of all the property; but they remain under […]
16Feb 6, 2017
Focus Be still and rest in the Lord. Read Ruth 1:1-18 (NRSV) In the days when the judges ruled, there was a famine in the land, and a certain man of Bethlehem in Judah went to live in the country of Moab, he and his wife and two sons. The name of the man was […]
17Nov 20, 2016
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 Jeremiah 23:1-6 (NRSV) Woe to the shepherds who destroy and scatter the sheep of my pasture! says the LORD. Therefore thus says the LORD, […]