April 28th, 2024

Take a minute and do this exercise with me….close your hands, curl your fingers in, squeeze them all together, push your fingertips deep into your palms.  How does it feel? Do you feel secure or do you feel tense? Is this comfortable or uncomfortable? Now slowly release your fists, straighten  your fingers, open your palms. […]

April 27th, 2024

Read Psalm 34:19 NIV The righteous person may have many troubles,     but the Lord delivers him from them all;  God, Thank You for Your goodness and Your love!  Thank You that even though we face difficulties we can trust that we do not face them alone.  The troubles we experience here in this life are […]

April 26th, 2024

Read Luke 4:18 NIV “The Spirit of the Lord is on me,     because he has anointed me     to proclaim good news to the poor. He has sent me to proclaim freedom for the prisoners     and recovery of sight for the blind, to set the oppressed free, Jesus stood in the temple that day and recited […]

April 25th, 2024

Read Philippians 3:12-13 NIV Not that I have already obtained all this, or have already arrived at my goal, but I press on to take hold of that for which Christ Jesus took hold of me. 13 Brothers and sisters, I do not consider myself yet to have taken hold of it. But one thing […]

April 24th, 2024

Read 2 Corinthians 5:17 NIV Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, the new creation has come: The old has gone, the new is here!  It has taken us a while to get here…and I almost hesitate to say it outloud…but I think spring is finally here!  The trees are budded out and flowers are beginning […]

April 23rd, 2024

Read John 8:31b-36 NIV  Jesus said, “If you hold to my teaching, you are really my disciples.  Then you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free.” They answered him, “We are Abraham’s descendants and have never been slaves of anyone. How can you say that we shall be set free?” Jesus […]

April 22nd, 2024

Read 1 John 1:5-9 NIV This is the message we have heard from him and declare to you: God is light; in him there is no darkness at all.  If we claim to have fellowship with him and yet walk in the darkness, we lie and do not live out the truth.  But if we […]

April 21st, 2024

Read Psalm 38:4 NIV My guilt has overwhelmed me  like a burden too heavy to bear. Sin is a heavy thing to carry.  Yet sometimes we wear it like we have to. It is as if sin is like an old coat that hangs in our closet and it’s the only thing we have to […]

April 20th, 2024

Read: James 1:17 NIV Every good and perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of the heavenly lights, who does not change like shifting shadows. Pray: Our Creator, You see all of time and space spread out in front of You. Our lives seem to dance and shimmer and change from moment […]

April 19th, 2024

Read: Isaiah 55:8-13 NRSV For my thoughts are not your thoughts,    nor are your ways my ways, says the Lord.For as the heavens are higher than the earth,    so are my ways higher than your ways    and my thoughts than your thoughts. For as the rain and the snow come down from […]