Lenten Devotional 2013

Sunday, March 10  A multitude of camels shall cover you…  –Isaiah 60:6a The Maasai people of Tanzania, for thousands of years, have been nomadic cattle herders.  Traditionally, they understood that their way of life came directly from their god,Engai, who gave cattle to their people. About twenty years ago, the climate began to change and the […]

Monday, March 11 “Rejoice in hope, be patient in suffering, persevere in prayer.”   –Romans 12:12 Hope doesn’t come from calculating whether the good news is winning out over the bad. It’s simply a choice to take action.    –Anna Lappe Bless us, O God, with patience and perseverance and joy.  Bless us with courage […]

Saturday, March 9   Then God said, “Let there be light;” and there was light. –Genesis 1:3 Walkers With The Dawn Being walkers with the dawn and morning, Walkers with the sun and morning, We are not afraid of night, Nor days of gloom, Nor darkness– Being walkers with the sun and morning. – Langston […]

Friday, March 8 And now faith, hope, and love abide, these three; and the greatest of these is love.               —1 Corinthians 13:12 Gentle amber eyes look at me with longing. A furry tail wags and one big paw is raised. Jeannie is filled with hope…hope that her favorite […]

Thursday, March 7 And not only that, but we also boast in our sufferings, knowing that suffering produces endurance, and endurance produces character, and character produces hope, and hope does not disappoint us, because God’s love has been poured into our hearts through the Holy Spirit that has been given to us.     –Romans […]

Wednesday, March 6   “People were bringing little children to him in order that he might touch them; and the disciples spoke sternly to them. But when Jesus saw this, he was indignant and said to them, “Let the little children come to me; do not stop them; for it is to such as these […]

  Tuesday, March 5 The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness did not overcome it.  –John 1:5 To hope is to see with the eye of the heart. To hope is to make the heart captain the vital and the body. To hope is to send darkness-night into exile. – Sri Chinmoy May […]

Monday, March 4 “Now faith is the assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of things not seen.”  –Hebrews 11:1 There are hundreds of Bible verses that have the word ‘hope’ in them, and an online search will uncover hundreds of examples under the keywords ‘stories of hope.’ One can discover this if they are […]

Sunday, March 3  ‘Everyone then who hears these words of mine and acts on them will be like a wise man who built his house on rock. 25The rain fell, the floods came, and the winds blew and beat on that house, but it did not fall, because it had been founded on rock. 26And […]

Saturday, March 2 I pray that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ…may give you a spirit of wisdom and revelation… so that, with the eyes of your heart enlightened, you may know what is the hope to which you have been called.  –Ephesians 1:17-18 There once was a traveler who journeyed all over the […]