Monday, June 7, 2010

It’s a beautiful day out here in the Meadows. The air has a special lightness in its wispy breeze. The corn is about eight inches high, a startling spurt since yesterday, and the hay meadow has shoots long enough to start waving with the wind. It is a day that celebrates God in his greatness; a day that lives communion with the divine.

How wonderful it would be if we could find our own lives to be just as bright, fruitful and celebratory! That was the message last Sunday, “Have Breakfast with Jesus:” live in the invitation to spend time with God. The meadows do. “See how the lilies of the field do not labor or spin. Not even Solomon in all his splendor was dressed like one of these.” (Matthew 6:28-30)

I really do believe life was meant to be joyful, uplifting, wispy and satisfying. And from what I've have seen over the past five decades plus, life generally is less than this ideal because we forget to live with that from which our essential soul comes. We try too often to go-at-it-alone. And I further believe that spending a little time focusing our consciousness on the eternal can change everything.

So here are some web-links to daily devotional material to help us "have breakfast with Jesus." Some are subscriptions. Some send you daily devotions right to your mail box. Other you simply long into each morning.

Navigators - www.Navlink.org (Navigator’s will email you six days a week)

The Upper Room - www.UpperRoom.org/devotional (from the United Methodists)

Our Daily Bread - www.odb.org (with an audio link)

Blue Letter Bible - www.blueletterbible.org/reader/daily (a daily bible reading program)