Devotions from Judy’s heart Isn’t it wonderful when we are received with open arms and know the other person truly welcomes us into their life?  Each time I go to my friend Julie’s, her dog Molly get so excited and gives me the most wonderful greeting. Her tail almost wags off and she runs to…

Devotions from Judy’s heart We have been enjoying the beautiful mountains and the verse came to mind from Matt. 17:20 “IF you have faith as small as a mustard seed, you can say to this mountain, ‘Move from here to there’ and it will move.’ Nothing will be impossible for you.” Sometimes it seems our…

 Devotions from Judy’s heart Forgiveness is a choice we make, just like cleaning our windshield was yesterday. We could have kept going with all the bugs blocking a clear vision but how much better to have it cleaned!  And you may not believe this, but today as we got gas the manager came out and…

Devotions from Judy’s heart Today as Al was napping, I was driving along and kept hearing zap, zap, zap. At 75mph the bugs were hitting the windshield and it got covered over with them so my vision was not as good. It was like a reminder to me of how our spiritual vision gets clouded…

  Devotions from Judy’s heart As I shared yesterday, Al is helping with the Spiritual Direction course at St. Scholastica and it is made up of people of all walks of life—from a nun to a Unitarian.  We might think it would be nice if  all of them were alike and on the same page,…

Devotions from Judy’s heart Are our blinds pulled? Do we miss the beauty of the Lord because we are closed down? While at the monastery we stayed in the room reserved for priests and pulled the blinds closed at night. But if we never opened them we would miss what God has. We don’t need…

Devotions from Judy’s heart Have you noticed how there is “in language” for various groups. In nursing we had our medical terms and language that we all understood. The Lawyers have their legal language too etc. One pastor was saying how we need to learn the language of another when we want to share Christ…

Devotions from Judy’s heart One day I went for a walk to the garden and the sun was shining and beautiful butterflies accompanied me etc. I just enjoyed it all! But on my way back as I was looking at the trees and clouds, I almost stepped on a snake. It was right on the…

Devotions from Judy’s heart One day when I went for my prayer walk, I saw a tree that was dead and had not one leaf on it. Soon it will either fall down or Al will cut it down. Sometimes it is hard to tell which ones are dead or simply which ones are losing…

Devotions from Judy’s heart One day I was at a meeting and it was so cold in the place. After about 2 hours, I couldn’t wait to leave the 4 walls and get to my car that had been sitting in the sun. The hot car felt wonderful and when I got home I wrapped…