Friday, December 4—A 2020 Winter Devotional Word “Restore us, O God of hosts; let your face shine, that we may be saved.” Psalm 80:7 Wisdom “Our best hope is to remain open to change, keeping our lamps trimmed in anticipation of the One who brings light.” Carol Zaleski Prayer As the world continues to [...]
Thursday, December 3—A 2020 Winter Devotional Word “Stir up your might, and come to save us!” Psalm 80:2 Wisdom “About suffering they were never wrong, The old Masters: how well they understood Its human position: how it takes place While someone else is eating or opening a window or just walking dully along;” [...]
Wednesday, December 2—A 2020 Winter Devotional Word “Yet, O Lord, you are our Father; we are the clay, and you are our potter; we are all the work of your hand.” Isaiah 64:8 Wisdom “God has work for all of us, particular to each of us. The news comes by angels, by dreams, by [...]
Tuesday, December 1—A 2020 Winter Devotional Word “But if we hope for what we do not see, we wait for it with patience.” Romans 8:25 Wisdom “Hope begins in the dark, the stubborn hope that if you just show up and try to do the right thing, the dawn will come. You wait and [...]
Monday, November 30—A 2020 Winter Devotional Word “The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness did not overcome it.” John 1:5 Wisdom “The world outside has its own seasons and its own colors. These days, the warm light of autumn is seeping away. All the bring leaves have flown. Winter is coming in [...]
Sunday, November 29—A 2020 Winter Devotional Word “From ages past no one has heard, no ear has perceived, no eye has seen any God besides you, who works for those who wait for him.” Isaiah 64:4 Wisdom “I can testify that the message of Advent still holds: with hope, with grace, with love, God [...]
Saturday, November 28—A 2020 Winter Devotional Word “And whatever you do, whether in word or deed, do it all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father through him.” Colossians 3:17 Wisdom “All day I try to say nothing but thank you, breathe the syllables in and out [...]
Friday, November 27—A 2020 Winter Devotional Word “Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth.” 1 Corinthians 13:6 Wisdom “And now I know what most deeply connects us after that summer so many years ago, and it isn’t poetry, although it is poetry, and it isn’t illness, although we have that in [...]
Thursday, November 26—A 2020 Winter Devotional Word “And whatever you do, whether in word or deed, do it all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father through him.” Colossians 3:17 Wisdom “If the only prayer you said was thank you, that would be enough.” Meister Eckhart Prayer For [...]
Wednesday, November 25—A 2020 Winter Devotional Word “Enter God’s gates with thanksgiving, and into the divine courts with praise! Give thanks to the Lord; bless God’s holy name!” Psalm 100:4 Wisdom “As long as we keep dividing our lives between events and people we would like to remember and those we would rather forget, [...]