Note: this devotion was written weeks ago and scheduled to be published today. Just sayin’. ❤️ Everyone who believes that Jesus is the Christ has been born of God, and everyone who loves the parent loves the child. By this we know that we love the children of God, when we love God and obey … More Victory
I have written a song with the amazing Ken Medema. The equally amazing Mark Miller has been so kind to make a recording of it for us. Enjoy!!
When God began to create the heavens and the earth, the earth was complete chaos, and darkness covered the face of the deep, while a wind from God swept over the face of the waters. – Genesis 1: 1-2 Water is part of the story of the very beginning of everything, at the creation of … More Water
I will sing of your steadfast love, O Lord, forever; with my mouth I will proclaim your faithfulness to all generations. I declare that your steadfast love is established forever; your faithfulness is as firm as the heavens. – Psalm 89:1-2 On the fourth Sunday of Advent, we light the candle of love. Love! Love of … More Love
Restore our fortunes, O Lord, like the watercourses in the Negeb. May those who sow in tears reap with shouts of joy. Those who go out weeping, bearing the seed for sowing, shall come home with shouts of joy, carrying their sheaves. – Psalm 126: 4-6 For the third week of Advent, we light the candle … More Joy
A voice cries out: “In the wilderness prepare the way of the Lord; make straight in the desert a highway for our God. Every valley shall be lifted up, and every mountain and hill be made low; the uneven ground shall become level, and the rough places a plain. Then the glory of the Lord shall be revealed, … More Peace
O that you would tear open the heavens and come down, so that the mountains would quake at your presence— as when fire kindles brushwood and the fire causes water to boil— to make your name known to your adversaries, so that the nations might tremble at your presence! – Isaiah 64: 1-2 This is … More Hope
will you see with me that there is more out there than the things you didn’t do and while, yes, the world aches, it also blooms, beguiles, bestows, and the fear, obligation, guilt are of one size but the world and you are so much bigger so much richer so, so much more beautiful
If I put my ear to the ground, I can hear the steady tread of the feet of the holy ones, the dedicated ones, those who tried and failed and tried again, rising after falling, taking the next step, and the next, and the next – measuring time by continued prayer, around the clock, around … More Chant
What life and God can teach us will not be hurried, cannot be manufactured, is not a diamond that will appear at will at the insistence of the powers that be in a certain place and time because it seems like this is a good place to “discover” a diamond and we certainly can’t trust … More What Shines
Lindy Thompson 