Today rather than thoughts from a book for a devotional , I just want to share a thought that came to me.   On cold winter nights we gradually let the fire die before we go to bed so we don’t get too hot during the night. It use to be when I got  up in…

A blessed Christmas! It may not see that this devotional is appropriate for  Christmas but perhaps it is since most of us will be with relatives and reviewing past experiences. Devotions from Mark McMinn’s book  Finding Our Way Home Today’s devotional is on looking back. As we do that we begin to see patterns. Yesterday’s roles get…

Devotions from Mark McMinn’s book, Finding Our Way Home In our human relationships we see a mirror of God who is divinely relational. We instinctively reach out to build families and friendships because” we have God’s joy in our blood.” If it were not for God’s love we would be forever stuck in the vicious…

Devotions from Mark McMinn’s book, Finding Our Way Home There is a rhythm to life of venturing out in an unpredictable world, being footloose, and then coming home to safety and comfort.  When we try to insulate ourselves with a predictable life, our plans invariably fail because life is not predictable.. We cannot know what…

Devotions from Mark McMinn at Finding Our Way Home Each of us has a story to explain where we have been and where we are going. We are making sense of things, looking at the past in light of the present and the present it light of the past. Intuitively, we know we are crafted…

Devotions from Just Betweeen Us magazine on envy Envy is rooted in basic discontent with ourselves and is often expressed through jealousy over someone else’s opportunity. Each of us is most susceptible to envy in the areas in which we feel most vulnerable or weak.  If we are not at peace with our identity and…

Devotions from Mark McMinn’s book, “Finding Our Way Home” He speaks of Home as the place we all seek-a place of secure love, known most fully in the embrace of God. We see home in some relationships, when there is compassion, trust, honesty, with places of deep safety and comfort that reflect God’s goodness. God…

Devotions from Just Between US magazine on gratitude Life itself is an incredible gift and we often forget that. In our society there is a hunger for more and more and we have a hard time appreciating all we do have. Gratitude is to be a way of life we are to cherish what we’ve…

Devotions from Just Between Us magazine on waiting on God God often answers our prayers with the four letter word WAIT. Waiting is hard and painful and tiring but it is a discipline that is intended to strengthen us. It is a discipline that produces righteousness and peace. ( Heb. 12:11-12) While we are waiting…

Devotions from an article in Just Between Us on Soul Friendship Soul friends fight for us to become the person God intended all along, reminding us where we are going. They see who we will be, not necessarily who we are now. “To truly love someone is to see them as God intended.” Said Dostoyevsky…