Weekly Devotional – Experiencing the Presence of the Risen Christ

Weekly Devotional ~ Uniting with Jesus

HOLY WEEK WITH JESUS While wandering on this lovely Spring day, it feels like its perfection could last forever and a day. I reflect upon shouting Hosannas and waving palm branches until our arms grow tired. Already we wandered into the emotional highs and lows of...
Weekly Devotional – Experiencing the Presence of the Risen Christ

Weekly Devotional ~ Life Emerges

SPRINGING FORTH Winter amnesia had set in. My memory of the colorful autumn season had faded months ago. Exactly when I thought I could not stand seeing winter’s monochromatic landscape one more day Bright yellows, purples, and greens make the first move to scooch us...
Weekly Devotional – Experiencing the Presence of the Risen Christ

Weekly Devotional – Wandering Like the Tortoise

LIFE ON THE GALAPAGOS Out of the bus window shouts are heard at the spotting! A gigantic solitary tortoise on the side of the lonesome highway extends her telescoping neck out of the ancient looking shell and grazes on grasses and cactus in the desert heat. Only she...
Weekly Devotional – Experiencing the Presence of the Risen Christ

Weekly Devotional – Returning from Ecuador

A NEW DAY Away from television broadcasts computer distractions and decisions required of where to go or what to do or eat My brain goes into a mode born of leisure not often seen of late. Enumerated lists of anxiety give way to taking joy in the frothy cranberry...
Weekly Devotional – Experiencing the Presence of the Risen Christ

Weekly Devotional – Obtain Hope

ATTAINING STRENGTH TOGETHER Sometimes our hearts hurt. for those in harm’s way. The skies darken and we wonder. what tomorrow will bring. Finally, the clouds begin to clear. Through them sunrays boldly shine forth in all directions. God’s intends that we believe....
Weekly Devotional – Experiencing the Presence of the Risen Christ

Weekly Devotional – Wandering to Wilderness

THE TRUNK For years the old trunk sat at the top Of the stairs of my folks’ home housing treasures rarely beheld. Back in the day, this sturdy trunk made a voyage across the sandhills in a horse-drawn carriage before being transferred onto a train pulled by a steam...
Weekly Devotional – Experiencing the Presence of the Risen Christ

Weekly Devotional – Ceaseless Prayers

THE WORLD NEEDS MORE OF THESE Little boys using glove-covered hands to build a cool snow fort directly on the edge of the long sled run on a sixty-degree Sunday in late February. One involved father with his son (who knows not that he’s so young) demonstrating great...