Focus Experience silence in the midst of your busy day. Take some time to relax into a time to be with God. Read Judges 7:12-22 (NRSV) The Midianites and the Amalekites and all the people of the east lay along the valley as thick as locusts; and their camels were without number, countless as the […]

Focus As you quiet yourself for this brief time, be willing to be open to God in whatever way that may take place. Read Galatians 2:1-10 (NRSV) Then after fourteen years I went up again to Jerusalem with Barnabas, taking Titus along with me. I went up in response to a revelation. Then I laid […]

Focus Slow your breathing and become aware of the taking in and letting out of your breath. Focus on putting things aside so you will be open to what God is saying to you today. Read 1 Corinthians 1:10-18 (NRSV) Now I appeal to you, brothers and sisters, by the name of our Lord Jesus […]

Focus Pay attention to the tension in your body. Let go of it and any expectations to do anything, but God’s will today. Prepare yourself to hear God’s word. Read Psalm 27:7-14 (NRSV) Hear, O LORD, when I cry aloud, be gracious to me and answer me! “Come,” my heart says, “seek his face!” Your […]

Focus Prepare yourself to discern what is and what is not of God today. Still yourself so you can hear how God is calling you. Read Luke 5:27-32 (NRSV) After this he went out and saw a tax collector named Levi, sitting at the tax booth; and he said to him, “Follow me.” And he […]

Focus Let yourself become open to God and the knowledge that comes from the Word. Ask God for peace at this time. Read Galatians 1:11-24 (NRSV) For I want you to know, brothers and sisters, that the gospel that was proclaimed by me is not of human origin; for I did not receive it from […]

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 Matthew 9:14-17 (NRSV) Then the disciples of John came to him, saying, “Why do we and the Pharisees fast often, but your disciples do not fast?” And Jesus said […]

Focus Experience silence in the midst of your busy day. Take some time to relax into a time to be with God. Read Hebrews 10:1-4 (NRSV) Since the law has only a shadow of the good things to come and not the true form of these realities, it can never, by the same sacrifices that […]

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 Exodus 12:1-13, 21-28 (NRSV) The LORD said to Moses and Aaron in the land of Egypt: This month shall mark for you the beginning […]

Focus Slow your breathing and become aware of the taking in and letting out of your breath. Focus on putting things aside so you will be open to what God is saying to you today. Read Isaiah 49:1-7 (NRSV) Listen to me, O coastlands, pay attention, you peoples from far away! The LORD called me […]