Today’s Walk in the Word

[Your beauty should be] the unfading beauty of a gentle and quiet spirit.                   —1 Peter 3:4 Do you have runway beauty that causes you to be by ragged by reporters and pursued by paparazzi? Maybe. Maybe not. Regardless, you are a candidate for beauty unmatched by […]

Oh, that I had the wings of a dove! I would fly away and be at rest.                —Psalm 55:6 From age eleven until his death at ninety-six, cellist Pablo Casals’ life was consumed with practice and performance. He played for the queen in Madrid and Queen Victoria in […]

The Lord is my strength and my song.                      —Isaiah 12:2 “God is my salvation,” wrote Isaiah; “I will trust and not be afraid. The Lord, the Lord, is my strength and my song.” Your emotions are raw from the chafing manacles of fear. Fear that […]

How many loaves do you have?                     —Mark 8:5 Back-to-back unachievable demands had the apostles perplexed. Jesus was telling them to do the impossible. According to Mark 6, he told them to feed an enormous crowd. Impossible! “How many loaves do you have?” he asked. “Five—and […]

Father, forgive them.     —Luke 23:34 The first of Jesus’ seven statements from the cross was, “Father, forgive them, for they do not know what they are doing.” The callous centurion who supervised Jesus’ death had seen many grisly crucifixions. But he saw and heard things that day that he had never seen or […]

Night is coming, when no one can work.                                —John 9:4 Henry Buckle was writing his History of Civilization when he was zapped by a debilitating fever. In his delirium, he repeatedly moaned, “Oh, to finish my book!” Cecil Rhodes, British […]

Now is the day of salvation.        —2 Corinthians 6:2 URGENT! A June letter said I needed to renew a gift subscription immediately—even though the expiration date wasn’t until December. URGENT! A July alert said I needed to renew my magazine subscription immediately—even though I was paid up through January. URGENT! An August […]

There are different kinds of gifts, but the same Spirit.     —1 Corinthians 12:4 At checkout, the young lady at my local Subway presses her index finger to a pad that unlocks the cash register and credit card terminal. Hers is the only one that will work the magic, for no two fingerprints are […]

We are God’s workmanship, created . . . to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do.                       —Ephesians 2:10 “Find what you like to do, and do it so well that people will pay you to do it.” That old […]

Be kind and compassionate to one another.                           —Ephesians 4:32 He was on the median at FM 1960 and Cutten Road, holding a cardboard sign: Vietnam Veteran. Out of work. When a stalled car created gridlock, he limped through the chaos, got behind […]