March 6

“I will give you a new heart and put a new spirit in you; I will remove from you your heart of stone and give you a heart of flesh.” There are so many beautiful things in nature. A favorite is the butterfly. With its wings fluttering on the breeze visiting all the pretty flowers, […]

March 5

“The Lord’s loving kindnesses indeed never cease, for His compassions never fail. They are new every morning; great is Thy faithfulness.” “They are new every morning…” – what a comforting phrase. God’s compassion and love for us comes to us fresh with each new day. It doesn’t matter what happened yesterday, today is a new […]

March 4

And his disciples asked him “Rabbi, who sinned, this man or his parents, that he was born blind?” Jesus answered, “It was not that this man sinned, or his parents, but that the works of God might be made manifest in him.” When misfortunes and afflictions come in life, we often think we are responsible, […]

March 3

Now that you have purified yourselves by obeying the truth so that you have sincere love for your brothers, love one another deeply, from the heart. For you have been born again, not of perishable seed, but of imperishable, through the living and enduring word of God. For, “All men are like grass, and all […]

December 31

“That I might finish my course with joy.” Paul was granted his heart’s desire. “I have finished my course”, he wrote later, and it was with joy. Not with money or earthly possessions, because he wrote from a dark dungeon, needing his cloak and parchments, not with a host of friends, for all men forsook […]

December 30

“Continue to love each other like brothers, and remember always to welcome strangers, for by doing this, some people have entertained angels without knowing it.” How different my actions would be if I treated others as if they might be angels. If I could remember to have the sense of wonderment and awe for my […]

December 29

Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall trouble or hardship or persecution or famine or nakedness or danger or sword? As it is written: “For your sake we face death all day long; we are considered as sheep to be slaughtered.” No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through […]

December 28

“Agree with God, and be at peace; in this way good will come to you.” My senior year in high school, I decided that I was NOT going to college the next year! I was goingto take at least a year off to work and then another to go backpacking through Europe. To pacify my […]

December 27

“For I consider that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory that is to be revealed to us.” As most collectors, I gather what would be considered unflawed, near perfect. However, as I combed a beach in Florida, I discovered the beauty of broken shells. They had […]

December 26

Now it came about after these things, that God tested Abraham, and said to him.“Abraham!” And he said, “Here I am…” God asks Abraham to take his only child, the one he’d waited a lifetime for, and put him on an altar, slit his throat, and then burn him in offering to God for His […]