Corona Devotionals

Don't forget your Fezziwig today!   "Who is Fezziwig", you might ask?     Surely we know Fezziwig.  Our heart knows Fezziwig.  Our childlike-self knows Fezziwig.  Our joyful and joy-filled self knows exactly who Fezziwig is.   Fezziwig is fun.  Fezziwig is light-hearted.  He is enjoy-the-moment and appreciate-life-today. Fezziwig (Mr.) is a character in Charles Dickens' "A Christmas Carol".  And for every "bah-humbug" and pinched-penny that Ebenezer Scrooge seethed, Fezziwig (instead) danced a jig or laughed with mirth alongside Mrs. Fezziwig and friends (and to him everyone was a friend). Don't forget your Fezziwig today!   It's easy for us (me!) to get caught up in deadlines, events, have-to's, and ought-to's, but joy is often a decision that we (simply) decide to make.   Our attitude is contagious...but what will we propel and project today?   A joyful heart is good medicine, but a crushed ...

Lord, help us (daughters-of-Yours)  to live  today in faith, love, holiness, and modesty. These are a unique foursome of personal-qualities, but they are the four pillars that God erects before us in Scripture today.  And (as always) He has purpose in doing so. ... continue to live in faith, love, holiness, and modesty.  ~I Timothy 2:15 To be specific, Paul is teaching the ladies  within earshot to  continue to live in faith, love, holiness, and modesty I Timothy 2:15).   And to be even more specific, Paul is preaching to the matriarchs, the mom's in his audience.   But women will be saved through childbearing,  assuming they continue to live in faith, love, holiness, and modesty.  ~I Timothy 2:15 Saved from what?  Well...from our sin.  We all have it, and in this unique section of Scripture, Paul acknowledges the sin of Eve in the Garden of Eden and the perpetual generations of sin ever since her.  And (interes...

Do we need to cry out to the Lord today...but don't know how to put our thoughts (and feelings) into words?   What to say?  How to express?   How can we capture the sentiments of our heart and spirit?  No one else could possibly understand.   Or...could it be that perhaps they could?  David was a shepherd in the Bible.  David was the youngest in a large family of brothers.  David wasn't projected (by his family) to amount to much.  But David stepped up and in to God's call on his life and David stepped up to the Goliath's in his life.   David was a warrior.  David was a musician.  David loved.  David lost.  David lived life in determined service to the Lord.  David knew God, and loved and feared God.  He also knew that he could come to God when life wasn't making sense and was getting too heavy. Do we need to cry out to the Lord today?  Let's use David's prayer  as our own: (1) ...