Tuesday in the Fourth Week of Lent When many cares fill my mind, your consolations cheer my soul. Psalm 94:19 As I kneel in church and fold my hands for prayer, I am taken back to my childhood. Somehow this… Continue reading

Monday in the Fourth Week of Lent For I am persuaded that your love is established for ever; you have set your faithfulness firmly in the heavens. Psalm 89:2 I walk into my office and see the post-it notes all… Continue reading

Saturday in the Third Week of Lent Lord, you have been our refuge From one generation to another. Before the mountains were brought forth, or the land and the earth were born from age to age you are God. Psalm… Continue reading

Friday in the Third Week of Lent It is a good thing to give thanks to the Lord, and to sing praises to your Name, O Most High; To tell of your loving-kindness early in the morning and of your… Continue reading

Thursday in the Third Week of Lent As the deer longs for the water-brooks, so longs my soul for you, O God. My soul is athirst for God, athirst for the living God; when shall I come to appear before… Continue reading

Wednesday in the Third Week of Lent Sing with joy to God our strength and raise a loud shout to the God of Jacob. Psalm 81:1 The lively conversation punctuated by boisterous laughter reaches across the lawn and up to… Continue reading

Tuesday in the Third Week of Lent That the generations to come might know, and the children yet unborn; that they in their turn might tell it to their children; So that they might put their trust in God, and… Continue reading

Monday in the Third Week of Lent I think of God, I am restless, I ponder, and my spirit faints. Psalm 77:3 The last vestiges of the recent storm are fading. The spring squall arrived with astonishing fierceness. Rain became… Continue reading

Saturday in the Second Week of Lent “I will appoint a time,” says God; “I will judge with equity.” Psalm 75:2 “It’s all about forgiveness,” my mentor tells me for not the first (or fortieth) time. In this instance, we… Continue reading

Friday in the Second Week of Lent Let us come before his presence with thanksgiving and raise a loud shout to him with psalms. Psalm 95:2 It has been a week of gift upon gift. Conversations have carried unlooked for… Continue reading