Category: daily devotions

Live the Moment

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Be happy for this moment. This moment is your life.  Omar Khayyam

enjoy lifeIt is so difficult for us to live each day on its own. We either want to dwell in the past or plan and live in the future. We seldom take the time to be present in each moment. I have often driven to work and had no idea how I got there. This is not being present. We need to pay attention. We need to savor each moment of each day. It is all we have.

Amazing God, help us to be present in each moment. Don’t let us live each day completely unaware. We praise you for the life you have given us. Help us to experience it. AMEN

Don’t Be Afraid to Love

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We are afraid to care too much, for fear that the other person does not care at all. Eleanor Roosevelt

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None of us wants to love where there is no love in return. Many times we are afraid to get in too deep….afraid of being hurt. The thing is that we have to take a chance or else spend out life with no experience of love at all. It helps to understand that the one sure love is the love of God. His love will never fail us. We may not always feel it for feeling are mercurial but he is there. He has promised us that nothing can ever separate us from his love. He keeps his promises.

Loving God, help us to remember that your love is steadfast and always with us. Teach us to love others as you have called us to do. AMEN

Act as if

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Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.

William James

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A number of years ago a Quaker friend said to me “act as if,” She was talking about how we act every day. If we act as if we are happy we may end up feeling better. If we act as if God is important in our lives just the action can cause us to draw nearer to Him. What we do and how we behave does make a difference. Look in the mirror each morning and choose how you will act that day.

Wondrous Lord, help us to choose each day to act in a Christian way. Remember, we may be the best Christian example someone knows.

Take Christ Home

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Without labor nothing prospers.

Sophocles

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God did not call us to just sit in church each week. Church is important. It is where we find the community that upholds us on our path but it is not the end. It is the beginning. Once we have been to church we are called to carry Christ right out the door and into our everyday lives. How else with others know what a true Christian is? Take Christ home and share him with others.

Understanding God, help us to understand our mission in the world. Remind us to carry Christ with us wherever we go. AMEN

Listen and Face the Unknown

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Whoever you are: some evening take a step out of your house, which you know so well. Enormous space is near.

Rainer Maria Rilke

face the unknownStaying in our comfort zone is so easy. God, however, frequently calls us to step out into the enormous space. God is not an easy taskmaster. If we really listen and hear what we are being called to do it can be pretty scary. Don’t be afraid. No matter what God will be there with us. Take that step into the unknown.

Amazing God, how often we do not listen to you. Please help us, not only to hear your voice above the noise in our life but also to do as you ask.

 

Sharing Heals

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In our won woundedness, we can become a source of life for others.

Henri Nouwen

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One of the things I have learned in life is that the trials that I have encountered have meaning. My understanding of others has grown with each trial. God uses our experiences by using them to help others. Don’t be afraid to share your griefs and your trials with others. Your experience can be healing for them.

Healing God, remind us that what we have learned in our journey can be used to heal others. Cod calls us to use those experiences for the good of other. AMEN

Know You Are Loved

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The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves.

William Hazlitt

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There are so many people striving for power. It seems to be an  addiction that consumes everything. . Nothing satisfies except more power. I wonder if it even satisfies those who become president.  In the struggle to be on top people are not important. This is such a devastating way to live. I’m not even sure that those who live this way actually love themselves. This is not the way God calls us to live. We are called to love God and love others. In the process we are also asked to love ourselves because God love us. His love provides us with all the self worth we need. We just have to recognize it.

Loving God, thank you for seeing us as your children and for loving us. Help us to know your love and be fulfilled. 

Lean On God

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We could never learn to be brave and patient, if there were only joy in the world.
Helen Keller

I am sure that I would not be happy in a world where everything is perfect. I’m afraid it would be boring. God never promised us that our whole life would be easy or free of problems. He just promised to be with us. I always think of the 23rd Psalm. “Though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death I will fear no evil…for thou art with me.” God is with us each and every day no matter what.

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Loving God, thank you for always being with us. Help us to understand that you are there and that we can lean on you. 

Don’t Starve

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Life is a banquet, and most poor suckers are starving to death!

From Auntie Mame

 live itThis is so true. I wonder how often we stop to savor just being alive. Are we thankful for what we have instead of longing for what we don’t have.? Most of us in this county are so blessed compared to those living in third world countries. My husband and I live in Panama for a while (many years ago)  and it made me decide that everyone in this country should have to live  in a place of horrible poverty and need for a least a year.

Take time to be aware of your blessings. Thank God always.

Loving God, forgive us for our lack of vision. We do not see the good around us as often as we should. Help us to see our blessings and give thanks. AMEN