Devotions from Leighton Ford’s book, The Attentive Life God’s love reaches out to us and calls us to our heart’s true home. “Love is seeking us, the only Love that redeems time, that takes the fragments of what is past and the hope of what is coming, and binds them together in the love of…

Yesterday’s sermon spoke especially to me as I had been contemplating these past couple weeks on the Lord singing over me with love, from scripture. I know we all know this in our heads, but do our hearts really know He delights in us and sings over us?  Any way Pastor Thea’s sermon was on…

Devotions from Leighton Ford’s book, The Attentive Life We all go through dark times of doubt, depression, disappointment, betrayal etc  If we learn to embrace our suffering, to carry it rather than lying under its weight and letting ourselves be crushed, then something strange happens.: We have lifted the weight and instead of being crushed…

Devotions from Leighton Ford’s book The Attentive Life As shadows start to lengthen, we realize that things don’t last forever and we need to pay more attention to the things that endure. We begin to wonder what we must let go of. What we need to hold on to closely. What do we need to…

Devotions from Leighton Ford’s book The Attentive Life “We must be still and keep on moving.”  T.S. Elliot   We need to be still because we are not God and He is. When we are still our knowing comes not from without but from within, or more truly, what I see and experience without is received…

Often at the midpoint of our lives we are susceptible to distractions and fatigue. Distractions are not necessarily bad if they are divine interruptions by which God gets our attention and turns us in a new direction.  Think of Saul when his life was interrupted by a divine light.  We need to pay attention when…

Devotions from Leighton Ford’s book, The Attentive Life Why is it that we so often let many busy things of life pull us away from the main thing that should get our full attention? Distraction comes from the Latin word to pull apart. When we are distracted we pull away from what deep down we…

Devotions from Leighton Ford’s book  The Attentive Life Too often we hurry through our day and rush into things rather than doing things thoughtfully and will a whole-hearted attention. Much of the time we are only half looking, and half seeing and too  preoccupied with our thoughts to live in the present. Before we launch…

Devotions from Leighton Ford’s book, The Attentive Life May our first reality of the day be that at dawn ( and long before) God is paying attention to us. “He creates each new day of our life as a gift. As day breaks, He calls us to be a people who pay attention, who watch…

Devotions for Leighton Ford’s book, The Attentive Life Each of us is part of a larger, longer, eternal purpose. God was contemplating us before we were born. As it says in Ps. 139:16 “All the days ordained for me were written in your book before one of them came to be.” We need to pay…