Ruby's daily devotionals — short morning reflections on Scripture and the small mercies of an ordinary day.
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"Enjoy life with the wife whom you love, all the days of your vain life." — Ecclesiastes 9:9 I have been thinking about Earl's mornings. He was up before me in every season, which is saying something because I have never been a late riser. But
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"And let us consider how to provoke one another to love and good deeds, not neglecting to meet together, as is the habit of some, but encouraging one another." — Hebrews 10:24-25 I was at church this morning and there is nothing to report, which is itself
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"Do not cast me off in the time of old age; do not forsake me when my strength is spent." — Psalm 71:9 I used to work in the garden until noon. I remember this the way I remember being able to eat a whole plate of fried
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"I know that there is nothing better for them than to be happy and enjoy themselves as long as they live; moreover, it is God's gift that all should eat and drink and take pleasure in all their toil." — Ecclesiastes 3:12-13 Friday does not
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"Her children rise up and call her happy; her husband too, and he praises her." — Proverbs 31:28 Dear Becca, You called last night and we talked for thirty minutes about nothing and it was one of the better conversations I have had all week, which tells you
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"Be still, and know that I am God." — Psalm 46:10 I read the Forty-sixth Psalm this morning and stopped where I always stop, which is the tenth verse. Be still, and know that I am God. I have read this verse more times than I can
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"And the LORD God planted a garden in Eden, in the east; and there he put the man whom he had formed. Out of the ground the LORD God made to grow every tree that is pleasant to the sight and good for food." — Genesis 2:8-9
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"To you, O LORD, I lift up my soul." — Psalm 25:1 There is a window in the morning before the heat comes and I try to be in my chair with my coffee and my journal before it closes. By seven the sun has found the kitchen
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"How lovely is your dwelling place, O LORD of hosts! My soul longs, indeed it faints for the courts of the LORD; my heart and my flesh sing for joy to the living God. Even the sparrow finds a home, and the swallow a nest for herself." — Psalm
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"The kingdom of heaven is like a mustard seed that someone took and sowed in his field; it is the smallest of all the seeds, but when it has grown it is the greatest of shrubs and becomes a tree." — Matthew 13:31-32 The children have been
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"Not that I am referring to being in need; for I have learned to be content with whatever I have. I know what it is to have little, and I know what it is to have plenty. In any and all circumstances I have learned the secret of being
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"Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow; they neither toil nor spin, yet I tell you, even Solomon in all his glory was not clothed like one of these." — Matthew 6:28-29 The cherry tomatoes have come in and I ate three of them standing