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 Psalm 139:1-12 New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition Psalm 139 The Inescapable God To the leader. Of David. A Psalm. 1 O Lord, you have searched me and known me. 2 You […]

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 63 Comfort and Assurance in God’s Presence A Psalm of David, when he was in the Wilderness of […]

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 Acts 12:4-11 New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 4 When he had seized him, he put him in prison and handed him over to four […]

Focus Experience silence in the midst of your busy day. Take some time to relax into a time to be with God. Read Deuteronomy 4:1-9 New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition Moses Commands Obedience 4 “So now, Israel, give heed to the statutes and ordinances that I am teaching you to observe, so that you may […]

Focus As you quiet yourself for this brief time, be willing to be open to God in whatever way that may take place. Read Exodus 4:10-17 New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 10 But Moses said to the Lord, “O my Lord, I have never been eloquent, neither in the past nor even now that you have […]

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 2 Timothy 4 New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 4 In the presence of God and of Christ Jesus, who is to judge the living and the dead, and in […]

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 John 10   New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition   10 “Very truly, I tell you, anyone who does not […]

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 Amos 4:6-13 (NRSV) I gave you cleanness of teeth in all your cities, and lack of bread in all your places, yet you did not return to me, says […]

Focus Experience silence in the midst of your busy day. Take some time to relax into a time to be with God. Read Psalm 80 (NRSV) Give ear, O Shepherd of Israel, you who lead Joseph like a flock! You who are enthroned upon the cherubim, shine forth before Ephraim and Benjamin and Manasseh. Stir […]

Reflect In the Peanuts comic strip, Linus once said, “I love humanity. It’s the people I can’t stand.” How often have we though this, even if we haven’t verbalized it? Humanity is abstract—people are real. They get in our faces with their demands and their smells and their aches. They interrupt our plans, and they […]