Psalm 119

God’s Grace in My Melt-down Mondays

January 21, 2013 Devotional Mundane

by Lindsey Carlson Last Monday was the Mother of all Mondays: the return from vacation. Let me just say, it was not pretty. We always have a rough time transitioning to the week’s work after playing all weekend. The bulk of the kick-back came when there were directions or instructions involved. None of us like [...]

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On Fighting Worldiness and Fruit Flies

October 1, 2012 Devotional Mundane

by Melissa McDonald My husband Eric came home with a sack of beautiful, green pears from the neighbor’s tree. I couldn’t wait for them to ripen. But that was my first mistake: I let them ripen right in the middle of my kitchen. It happened over a month ago. Every last pear has been eaten. [...]

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Cherishing God’s word around the clock

December 2, 2011 Devotional Mundane

by Gloria Furman If you hold a Bible upright and let the pages fall open so that it opens in the middle, it will likely open up pretty close to Psalm 119. Psalm 119 is the longest chapter in the Bible, and if you can read biblical Hebrew then you’ll notice it is an acrostic-type [...]

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On attitudes, eardrums and God’s kindness

October 22, 2011 Devotional Mundane

by Gloria Furman Red Like Volcano Fire! I took this photo the hour my son’s fever broke. I’m thankful to report the Painfully Bulging Eardrums of 2011 are subsiding! The night before I took this picture I was doing what any other mildly paranoid mom would do. I kept googling his temperature to find the [...]