Daily Devotionals
Visit the the following links for a daily devotionals from the
Presbyterian Church USA
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A) Daily Readings
Be sure to visit the following website
for an excellent daily devotional:
Our Daily Bread
Click here to visit The Study Catechism from the Presbyterian Church USA website
Click here to visit the Presbyterian Church in Canada's Daily Devotional page
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Beauty of the Earth - Mormon Tabernacle Choir
Were You There When They Crucified My Lord - Charlie Rich
Precious Memories - Statler Brothers
Angel's Wish - Steven Curtis Chapman
They'll Know We Are Christians By Our Love - Jars Of Clay
Here With Me - MercyMe
One Day At A Time - Willie Nelson & Merle Haggard
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“Sailing Life’s Seas’’
When I was a young child, before school age, I remember playing on an old picnic table in our back yard. In my imagination, this old weathered table became a sailing ship, and many were the days I sailed her on the open seas.
I must have seen some old movie about pirates, and my imagination was kindled. I remember well stepping up and down from the bench to the table top, as if from the lower deck to the upper. I had made an even higher deck from a metal wash tub turned upside down. Standing on top of the washtub, and holding a broom as support, I would scan the horizon. I sailed under clear skies and calm seas. With a solid plank table under me, and an imagination that reached to the horizon, my sailing ship and I had many an adventure. Looking back now, I don’t recall many rough seas. If I did, they were nothing that my sturdy vessel and a child’s fantasy could not handle.
I wish I could say the same for the seas of adulthood. On my journey through life, I have had to face real storms, and the going got pretty rough. I admit that some of the vessels I used to navigate life’s storms, proved less than seaworthy. They were not much better than the playthings of my childhood. The material objects of this world and the cleverness of human wisdom were not strong enough.
Only the living God, and He alone, was capable of carrying me safely through the traumas and trials I faced.
This devotional is dedicated in memory of Jim Howe. Jim asked for devotionals to post on the church’s new web site. This is the fourth devotional I have written. Without Jim’s encouragement, I’m not sure there would have been a first one.
Submitted by Frank Carstarphen
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Try pausing from your daily routine and talk with God.
Remember ... the cure for the common life begins and ends with God.
