Focus Let your soul take a moment of rest as you hear God’s word. Put your busy schedule, wandering mind, stressful thoughts, and burdened heart at the feet of the cross and open up to God’s voice as the Giver of Life tends your soul. Read 2 Chronicles 5:2-14 (NRSV) Then Solomon assembled the elders […]

Focus Relax and listen. Consciously prepare to hear God’s Word. Clear your mind of the worries and tasks that lie before you. Open your heart and allow it to refresh. Read Psalm 29 (NRSV) Ascribe to the LORD, O heavenly beings, ascribe to the LORD glory and strength. Ascribe to the LORD the glory of […]

Focus Let yourself become open to God and the knowledge that comes from the Word. Ask God for a peace at this time. Read Psalm 121 (NRSV) I lift up my eyes to the hills— from where will my help come? My help comes from the LORD, who made heaven and earth. He will not […]

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 Psalm 30 (NRSV) I will extol you, O LORD, for you have drawn me up, and did not let […]

Focus As you quiet yourself for this brief time, be willing to be open to God in whatever way that may take place. Read Psalm 122 (NRSV) I was glad when they said to me, “Let us go to the house of the LORD!” Our feet are standing within your gates, O Jerusalem. Jerusalem—built as […]

Focus Experience silence in the midst of your busy day. Take some time to relax into a time to be with God. Read Hebrews 10:19-25 (NRSV) Therefore, my friends, since we have confidence to enter the sanctuary by the blood of Jesus, by the new and living way that he opened for us through 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 Psalm 63:1-8 (NRSV) O God, you are my God, I seek you, my soul thirsts for you; my flesh faints for you, as in a dry and weary land where there […]