Christian Devotionals and Scripture Applied to Everyday Life

It is a terrible feeling to be lonely. Everyone experiences aloneness at different times in his or her life. There are periods when you are physically alone, but it is also possible to have this desolate feeling when surrounded by lots of people.

Recently on an airplane trip I was asked to move from my assigned seat to accomodate a young family. I gladly moved to the new seat located by the exit door. I did not think much about it, other than there was more leg room, until the flight attendant approached and standing in the aisle between the seats launched into a memorized speech. I missed most of what she said until she neared the end. She asked those of us in these extra leg room seats, "Are you ok with this?" Most nodded in ignorant agreement, but I immediately queried, "Whoa, could you repeat that? What am I agreeing to?"

Recently we had an auction where we sold some very old and decrepit prints. The yellowed paper was ripped on the edges in a few places and one corner was folded up on itself. Though these old drawings looked like nothing special to the untrained eye, they were worth quite a bit of money and sold very well.

A number of years ago we raised our first flock of chickens. One morning, after having invested months raising these feathered friends, I went to the barn and met a disastrous sight. During the night a coyote or some other wild animal had bypassed our attempts at security, crept into the barn, and killed almost all of the birds.

Recently John-Keith has been working to rebuild the porch on our house. It is an old house and the portico, after seeing many years of weather and storms, had started to rot away in places. Birds had gotten up under the metal roof and built nests causing further damage to the rickety overhang. Upon tearing down certain trusses he realized the extent of the damage and needed to go out and buy new strong lumber to replace the rotted ones.

Do you wish to get well? When brought to the point of decision, respond in faith and accept the cure that only Jesus' power can bring.