by debracelovsky | Oct 17, 2022 | One Year Bible, Prayer, Word
While cleaning up some digital files recently, I came across the following meditation. I had written this prayer one October morning several years ago after reading the Old Testament passage for that day in my One Year Bible. Migraines continue to occur and I was...
by debracelovsky | Sep 26, 2022 | One Year Bible, Prayer, Travel
Recently, I left the wine country north of San Francisco where I live to visit relatives living in the Mojave Desert of Southern California. It had been some years since I’d been to SoCal, and never that far southeast in the state. It’s a remarkable drive....
by debracelovsky | Aug 6, 2022 | One Year Bible, Prayer
Deep reading processes may be under threat as we move into digital-based modes of reading. Maryanne Wolf in The Guardian It happened a few days ago. The opening words of a familiar chapter in my OYB: I urge you . . .present your bodies. . . sacrifice . . . holy . . ....
by debracelovsky | Jun 14, 2022 | One Year Bible, Prayer, Word
Question: How do you teach kids about Christians being killed for their faith? Yet another coincidence. Early June in the OYB means the Book of Acts. The second week of June means the martyrdom of Stephen. It’s my week in the Sunday School teaching rotation for...
by debracelovsky | Jan 5, 2021 | Prayer, Word
Amid all this lived this sturdy little woman, keeping her lamp alight so that New York Harbor might be safe for ships that pass in the night.Obituary, Kate Walker, New York Evening Post, February 5, 1931 In New York Harbor, between Staten Island and the Statue of...
by debracelovsky | Nov 3, 2020 | Liberty, Prayer
For my thoughts are not Your thoughts, nor are your ways My ways, says the Lord. For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are My ways higher than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts. Book of Isaiah 55:8-9 Lord Jesus: We acknowledge you as Sovereign,...
