Category Archives: Daily Bread Devotional

Learning Lessons
Katherine Stanford of Kirtland, NM, USA

Many peoples shall come and say,
“Come, let us go up to the mountain of the Lord,
  to the house of the God of Jacob;
that he may teach us his ways
  and that we may walk in his paths.”
For out of Zion shall go forth instruction,
  and the word of the Lord from Jerusalem.
He shall judge between the nations,
  and shall arbitrate for many peoples;
they shall beat their swords into plowshares,
  and their spears into pruning hooks;
nation shall not lift up sword against nation,
  neither shall they learn war any more. -Isaiah 2:3-4

During the COVID-19 pandemic, we have all been asked to stay at home, work from home, and stay safe. Because of this, fewer people are “out and about.” My wonderful husband pointed out something he saw on Facebook. A series of photographs depicted deserted city streets devoid of pedestrians and cars. The gutters were clean; the air was clean. There were also pictures of the horizon showing the lack of the haze that usually covers the cities. It was beautiful. God is resurrecting the Earth. He is cleaning the air and taking care of the mess that we have made in it.

Are we learning anything from this or are we just like the spoiled child that expects our parent to clean up after us and then messes things up again? I hope that we have learned a lesson from this that goes beyond the idea of social distancing or complaining about restrictions placed on us. You see, what we do does make a difference to the world. That extra trip to the grocery store to get the one item we forgot changes our world just a little bit, but these things add up.

God is the parent that expects us to take care of what we are given. Let us start living up to God’s expectations.

Prayer Phrase

Let your world of beauty capture me.

Spiritual Practice

Growing a Gracious, Generous Heart

Open your heart to God’s grace and generosity with a “breath prayer.” Let your breathing slow and deepen. Be aware of God’s breath moving in and out of your heart. Spend several minutes focusing on breathing in God’s generosity. With each breath, silently name one gift for which you are thankful. Let your heart expand to contain God’s gracious outpouring of love. With each breath out, name one gift you want to share from the overflow of your heart.

Today’s Prayer for Peace

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The “In Between”
Vickie Hollomon-Slappey of Braselton, GA, USA

These are portentous times. The lives of many are being sacrificed unnecessarily to the gods of war, greed, and avarice. The land is being desecrated by the thoughtless waste of vital resources. You must obey my commandments and be in the forefront of those who would mediate this needless destruction while there is yet day. -Doctrine and Covenants 150:7

I am writing this on Holy Saturday, April 11, 2020. My first waking thought this morning was that we are in the “in between.” As I pondered, I realized that we know something about this particular day that Jesus’ apostles did not. Have you ever wondered what they were thinking and feeling the day after the crucifixion of Christ? I suspect their inner dialogues sounded something like this: “I thought He would change things. Was He really our Messiah? What do I do now? I have been abandoned. Hide.”

The apostles did not yet understand that Jesus was behind the scenes, accomplishing great things in the spiritual realm while they hid in confusion mourning their loss. Stuck “in between” their darkest day and greatest miracle.

Holy Saturday is the day before our Easter celebrations. However, this year is uncommonly different. This year many of our churches are closed as the world battles a pandemic known as COVID-19. This year fear can easily replace our joy. Today many of our inner dialogues sound like this: “What if… What if I get sick? What if my child or loved one falls ill? What if I lose my job and cannot provide for my family?”

But just like the apostles, we do not know what Jesus is doing behind the scenes this very day. One thing I do know-it is something great! That is something to celebrate every day of the year! When you find yourself in the “in between” of any given situation remember you have a Savior who has promised to never leave you stranded there. Hang on to His promises and He will give you peace. His peace surpasses all understanding. Yes, peace be with you.

Prayer Phrase

Let your world of beauty capture me.

Spiritual Practice

Growing a Gracious, Generous Heart

Open your heart to God’s grace and generosity with a “breath prayer.” Let your breathing slow and deepen. Be aware of God’s breath moving in and out of your heart. Spend several minutes focusing on breathing in God’s generosity. With each breath, silently name one gift for which you are thankful. Let your heart expand to contain God’s gracious outpouring of love. With each breath out, name one gift you want to share from the overflow of your heart.

Today’s Prayer for Peace

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The Power of Recognition
From Hospitality: Sharing God’s Welcome

[Excerpted from Hospitality: Sharing God’s Welcome, Tammy Lindle Lewis, Herald House, 2006, pp. 45-46]

For you shall go out in joy,
  and be led back in peace;
the mountains and the hills before you
  shall burst into song,
  and all the trees of the field shall clap their hands. -Isaiah 55:12

When we label someone a stranger, it is usually because that person is unknown or represents something different or unknown to us. If we think about it, we each are strangers, too. Even though we may be blessed with a multitude of resources and are surrounded by close connections through friends and family, there are many people in the world who don’t know who we are and who don’t know anything about us. As unlikely as it may sound to label ourselves, we must remember that to many people we are strangers.

However, strangers are not only people who are unknown to us; many times they are also those who are disconnected from basic relationships that give people a secure place in the world. They are often detached from family, community, church, and work. People without a place who are also without financial resources are sometimes the most vulnerable people. They not only lack supportive connections with other human beings, but they also are unable to purchase many of the basic necessities of life.

If we look closely at the specific categories of people who warrant hospitality in biblical texts, we will see that they have one thing in common: they are all vulnerable populations. They exist on the margins, both socially and economically. They can easily be ignored and seldom bring status of financial gain to those who reach out to them. Many individuals who are not valued by the larger community are essentially invisible to it. When people are socially invisible, their needs and concerns are not acknowledged, and no one even notices the injustices they suffer. Offering hospitality can begin a journey toward visibility and respect. When we offer hospitality to strangers, we welcome them into a place to which we are somehow connected-a place that has meaning and value to us.

When hospitality is offered, the stranger is welcomed into a safe, personal, and comfortable place, a place of respect, acceptance, and friendship. Even if only briefly, the stranger becomes the guest and is included in a life-giving and life-sustaining network of relations. Such welcome involves attentive listening and a mutual sharing of lives and stories. It requires an open heart, a willingness to make one’s life visible, and a generosity of time and resources.

Prayer Phrase

Let your world of beauty capture me.

Spiritual Practice

Growing a Gracious, Generous Heart

Open your heart to God’s grace and generosity with a “breath prayer.” Let your breathing slow and deepen. Be aware of God’s breath moving in and out of your heart. Spend several minutes focusing on breathing in God’s generosity. With each breath, silently name one gift for which you are thankful. Let your heart expand to contain God’s gracious outpouring of love. With each breath out, name one gift you want to share from the overflow of your heart.

Today’s Prayer for Peace

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Easter Rejoicing
Eric Wiant of Springfield, IL, USA

Put away from you all bitterness and wrath and anger and wrangling and slander, together with all malice, and be kind to one another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, as God in Christ has forgiven you. Therefore be imitators of God, as beloved children, and live in love, as Christ loved us and gave himself up for us, a fragrant offering and sacrifice to God. -Ephesians 4:31-32, 5:1-2

After Jesus’ crucifixion, he was placed in a tomb but only remained there for three days. On the third day, He arose. Following the discovery of the empty tomb, the disciples rejoiced as they realized Jesus truly had risen, as He said He would.

It has been nearly 2000 years since this happened, and for centuries humankind has gathered worldwide at Easter, over-filling churches to worship and celebrate Jesus’ resurrection.

In 2020, t life has changed completely. Sadly, a terrible deadly virus has spread around the world, killing many and causing others to suffer dreadfully before recovering. Many of us are experiencing home quarantine because we’ve been ordered to stay at home for our own good.

Not being able to gather, socialize, or worship as usual may slow us down but that’s okay for now. Jesus is still Jesus, and he still loves us. He is with us especially during these trying and scary times. He will never leave us nor forsake us.

The time has come for us to rejoice. This year on Easter Sunday, sanctuaries around the world were empty and that’s all right, because the tomb is still empty! Life may change but our beliefs and our faith need not change. We are still children of God, and God still loves us. Instead of being sad and allowing ourselves to get stressed by this current situation, let’s put that energy into prayer and praise. My praise today is that I get to watch my grandchildren grow up. What can you praise God for this week?

Isaiah reminds of God’s care during these difficult and trying times: “Do not fear, for I am with you, do not be afraid, for I am your God; I will strengthen you, I will help you, I will uphold you with my victorious right hand” (Isaiah 41:10).

May God always bless you and keep you.

Prayer Phrase

Let your world of beauty capture me.

Spiritual Practice

Growing a Gracious, Generous Heart

Open your heart to God’s grace and generosity with a “breath prayer.” Let your breathing slow and deepen. Be aware of God’s breath moving in and out of your heart. Spend several minutes focusing on breathing in God’s generosity. With each breath, silently name one gift for which you are thankful. Let your heart expand to contain God’s gracious outpouring of love. With each breath out, name one gift you want to share from the overflow of your heart.

Today’s Prayer for Peace

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Walking in My Father’s Wisdom
Connie Hill of Richmond, VA, USA

When your willingness to live in sacred community as Christ’s new creation exceeds your natural fear of spiritual and relational transformation, you will become who you are called to be. The rise of Zion the beautiful, the peaceful reign of Christ, awaits your whole-hearted response to the call to make and steadfastly hold to God’s covenant of peace in Jesus Christ. -Doctrine and Covenants 164:9b

Now having lived at least half a century and reflecting on conversations with my now departed father, I am so very grateful for his guidance in many ways. Moreover, and most important, my gratitude really stems from the core of my father’s guiding hand, our Father in heaven as etched in Matthew 6:9 “…Our Father in heaven, hallowed be your name.”

I recall memories of those important early years: riding with my father on his tractor as he plowed fields in Tennessee while enjoying the company of his only daughter, being scolded, being given a beautiful doll at Christmas. He was a tall, robust man. He also gave me “the talk” about boys during the turbulent teen years. He taught me to maintain good credit and to keep the oil changed in my car during my college years as he helped me buy my first vehicle.

I am most appreciative of his guidance, alongside my mother, in leading me and my siblings to the Lord and to depend on the Lord. Ephesians 6:4 teaches fathers to bring children up “in the discipline and instruction of the Lord.” He taught about knowing our heavenly Father and heeding God’s words.

Though attending church in my early years seemed somewhat ritualistic to me, I still sensed the importance of listening to what was being said. I sought to be a better person and to strive for the goal of joining our heavenly Father and Jesus Christ, the Lamb of God, in heaven forevermore.

My father grew in his relationship with the Lord during the latter part of his life. I recall his many comments on the challenge of living his best for the Lord because of being human. He would emphasize this challenge for all of humankind. I am forever grateful for the best gift I received from my earthly father, the gift of the knowledge of God and how to live a life of purpose.

Prayer Phrase

Let your world of beauty capture me.

Spiritual Practice

Growing a Gracious, Generous Heart

Open your heart to God’s grace and generosity with a “breath prayer.” Let your breathing slow and deepen. Be aware of God’s breath moving in and out of your heart. Spend several minutes focusing on breathing in God’s generosity. With each breath, silently name one gift for which you are thankful. Let your heart expand to contain God’s gracious outpouring of love. With each breath out, name one gift you want to share from the overflow of your heart.

Today’s Prayer for Peace

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Hear the Word
Barbara Borkowski, Mission Support Ministers, team lead

And he told them many things in parables, saying: “Listen! A sower went out to sow. And as he sowed, some seeds fell on the path, and the birds came and ate them up. Other seeds fell on rocky ground, where they did not have much soil, and they sprang up quickly, since they had no depth of soil. But when the sun rose, they were scorched; and since they had no root, they withered away. Other seeds fell among thorns, and the thorns grew up and choked them. Other seeds fell on good soil and brought forth grain, some a hundredfold, some sixty, some thirty. Let anyone with ears listen!” -Matthew 13:3-9

Seeds are about potential. Within every seed is the mystery of growth and new life. That growth and new life is dependent on many factors: sunshine, fertilizer, water, soil cultivation, soil stability, and a method to spread or plant the seed. The gospel is a lot like a seed. It has potential. The potential is always present and, like a seed, is dependent on a variety of conditions and factors.

It begins with a friendship, reaching out in vulnerability to another person. That friendship deepens over time. Through conversations about what matters most, an invitation is extended; the seed is planted. The seed is a beginning, a potential, that is nurtured and shared. Some seeds take more time. Some seeds seem to take hold immediately. Each seed has future potential.

The gospel seed was planted early in my life. It was nurtured through friendship, mentoring, and opportunity. There are times when I have actively shared with others and planted the seeds of the gospel. There have been other times when I was too timid, too afraid of rejection; I neglected to share those gospel seeds. Sometimes I have played the part of the soil, carefully nurturing a seed that someone else planted. Regretfully, at other times I have been more like a thorn or a rock, unable to extend myself in vulnerability to someone in need.

The sower in this parable understands the seed as potential. The sower isn’t timid or afraid of what will happen once the seed is sown. The sower is unconcerned about soil conditions or planting methods. Instead, the sower continues to plant seeds, even in those unlikely places where it seems impossible for the seed to take root.

The world needs to hear gospel seeds. Be a sower. Share your witness and invitation generously, compassionately, widely, and joyfully!

Prayer Phrase

Let your world of beauty capture me.

Spiritual Practice

Growing a Gracious, Generous Heart

Open your heart to God’s grace and generosity with a “breath prayer.” Let your breathing slow and deepen. Be aware of God’s breath moving in and out of your heart. Spend several minutes focusing on breathing in God’s generosity. With each breath, silently name one gift for which you are thankful. Let your heart expand to contain God’s gracious outpouring of love. With each breath out, name one gift you want to share from the overflow of your heart.

Today’s Prayer for Peace

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The Reasonableness of Faith (Part 3 of 3)
From A Way of Life: Understanding Our Christian Faith

[Excerpted from A Way of Life: Understanding Our Christian Faith, Anthony J. Chvala-Smith, Herald House, 2019, pp. 32-33]

A shoot shall come out from the stump of Jesse, and a branch shall grow out of his roots.
The spirit of the Lord shall rest on him, the spirit of wisdom and understanding, the spirit of counsel and might,
the spirit of knowledge and the fear of the Lord. His delight shall be in the fear of the Lord.
He shall not judge by what his eyes see, or decide by what his ears hear;
but with righteousness he shall judge the poor, and decide with equity for the meek of the earth;
he shall strike the earth with the rod of his mouth, and with the breath of his lips he shall kill the wicked. -Isaiah 11:1-4

The presence of massive suffering and enormous evil in human experience leads many people to decide that faith in God is unjustifiable. We do well to listen to the cries of the victims and not rush to hasty, thoughtless “religious” answers. No one knew better than the psalmists how the reality of God recedes before the anguish of human grief and misery. At the same time, one’s cry of anguish is not a lament if the universe is empty. If there is only “nature,” then what we call suffering cannot be mourned, because it is simply what happens in a silent, pitiless universe. On the other hand, if God exists, then our outrage at suffering has a listener, and our sorrow has one who shares it with us. Furthermore, if God is, then we can understand why faith has empowered prophetic people like Martin Luther King Jr. and Mother Teresa in their struggles to make the world more just and humane. Even more so, we can find the courage to join them in that quest.

Fear in the Christian life is never a virtue. That includes fear of new knowledge, fear of change, or even fear of proper criticisms of religion. Seeking to comprehend the world, the human past, diverse cultures, our own lives, and especially our faith is a principle way we can, in the words of the psalmist, “walk in our integrity.” Integrity means being honest about what we do not know, while living from what we do know. It means following truth, however partially glimpsed, wherever it leads. It means acknowledging that the infinite mystery of God demands all we are, especially our deepest thought, in openness and trust. Community of Christ believes faith must welcome the quest for truth from all sources. As some medieval theologians taught, God is Truth itself. Therefore, wherever truth is found, God already is present.

Prayer Phrase

Let your world of beauty capture me.

Spiritual Practice

Growing a Gracious, Generous Heart

Open your heart to God’s grace and generosity with a “breath prayer.” Let your breathing slow and deepen. Be aware of God’s breath moving in and out of your heart. Spend several minutes focusing on breathing in God’s generosity. With each breath, silently name one gift for which you are thankful. Let your heart expand to contain God’s gracious outpouring of love. With each breath out, name one gift you want to share from the overflow of your heart.

Today’s Prayer for Peace

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The Reasonableness of Faith (Part 2 of 3)
From A Way of Life: Understanding Our Christian Faith

[Excerpted from A Way of Life: Understanding Our Christian Faith, Anthony J. Chvala-Smith, Herald House, 2019, pp. 31-32]

So if anyone is in Christ, there is a new creation: everything old has passed away; see, everything has become new! All this is from God, who reconciled us to himself through Christ, and has given us the ministry of reconciliation; that is, in Christ God was reconciling the world to himself, not counting their trespasses against them, and entrusting the message of reconciliation to us. -2 Corinthians 5:17-19

There are not “proofs” for God’s existence. God is not a piece of data. God is not a thing among other things that we can measure or analyze. Nor is God the answer to a kind of a geometry problem that one simply can solve with the right formula. A “god” who can be proven like a theorem is not what Christian faith means when it uses the word God. God’s being is unfathomable. God’s existence is beyond the normal ways we think and know. …God’s nature is to be…God’s name is “I am” (Exodus 3:13-15). Humans…are mortal and limited. We might not have been, and one day we will cease to be. Our existence springs from elsewhere, not from ourselves. But God’s existence is unique; God simply is. And that truth exceeds the power of human comprehension. …God graciously invites us to give ourselves to the divine mystery in trust and love. While all this is beyond human reason’s considerable ability, it by no means is irrational. In a similar way, human love is intensely real, yet we struggle to probe its depths and grasp its heights. But even when our words fail, we do not cease giving ourselves in love to others. And in this action, we trust what we are doing, even if we do not fully comprehend it.

Faith in God makes sense of our yearning to seek beyond ourselves for what is higher, good, true, beautiful, and just. The unsettledness in the human soul and the longing of our minds to comprehend things make a new kind of sense if God exists as the infinite mystery of the world. That scientists find the universe, with all its chaos and unpredictability, comprehensible makes sense if we imagine a creative mind at work within it. That millions of years of evolution can produce a child’s glee at watching a butterfly or a scientist’s calculations of the movements of galaxies makes sense if the universe and its processes reflect an ultimate mystery, God. None of these observations “proves” that God exists, but they support our conviction that a life of faith is neither irrational nor misguided.

Prayer Phrase

Let your world of beauty capture me.

Spiritual Practice

Growing a Gracious, Generous Heart

Open your heart to God’s grace and generosity with a “breath prayer.” Let your breathing slow and deepen. Be aware of God’s breath moving in and out of your heart. Spend several minutes focusing on breathing in God’s generosity. With each breath, silently name one gift for which you are thankful. Let your heart expand to contain God’s gracious outpouring of love. With each breath out, name one gift you want to share from the overflow of your heart.

Today’s Prayer for Peace

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The Reasonableness of Faith (Part 1 of 3)
From A Way of Life: Understanding Our Christian Faith

[Excerpted from A Way of Life: Understanding Our Christian Faith, Anthony J. Chvala-Smith, Herald House, 2019, pp. 30-31]

For I the Lord love justice, I hate robbery and wrongdoing;
I will faithfully give them their recompense, and I will make an everlasting covenant with them.
Their descendants shall be known among the nations and their offspring among the peoples;
all who see them shall acknowledge that they are a people whom the Lord has blessed.
I will greatly rejoice in the Lord, my whole being shall exult in my God;
for he has clothed me with the garments of salvation, he has covered me with the robe of righteousness,
as a bridegroom decks himself with a garland, and as a bride adorns herself with her jewels.
For as the earth brings forth its shoots, and as a garden causes what is sown in it to spring up,
so the Lord God will cause righteousness and praise to spring up before all the nations. -Isaiah 61:8-11

It is hard to imagine human life without the experience of open-ended trust. Faith makes us fully human, capable of reaching into the unknown, in delight and wonder, in fear and uncertainty. It makes love and even science possible. For at the heart of life’s deepest encounters of love, thought, creativity, or service is a fundamental trust in the goodness of reality. Often we nurture this conviction despite events or understandings to the contrary. Trust survives in the most appallingly evil human conditions… It exists in life’s most sublime and beautiful occasions… it is found in the daily struggle of family and work. Our humanity is a profound mystery, yet the human story reveals how our capacity to trust is essential to our existence.

Faith in God shares much with these common human experiences. It, too, is a kind of open-ended trust, a yielding to the unknown in love and wonder. But in Christian terms, faith is not simply belief in an otherwise-absurd idea. It is not holding an opinion that a being called “God” exists. …Faith in God, however, is far more radical. It touches the very roots of our personhood, stirring and unsettling us to our core. God as the mystery within and beneath all the mysteries of the world invites us to trust in the divine self. The invitation confronts us as ultimate because it calls us to entrust our whole self to the mystery. At the same time, in the presence of this mystery our humanity is elevated by a deep desire to yield ourselves fully, in love and trust, to what is good: indeed, to what some thinkers have called “goodness itself.”

Faith in God is not a simplistic answer to life’s dilemmas. Nor is it agreement with a list of ideas. It is, rather, a way of life. This path involves giving our whole being…to the mystery of God in an ongoing process. Faith draws on all the resources of our humanity, including our intellect. Thus faith in God, like our human experiences of trust, is not in any sense “irrational.” In fact, to be grasped by the infinite Mystery the Christian path identifies as “God” brings an ever-deepening meaning and rationality to the story of our lives. Faith in God becomes a new voyage of discovery in a vast uncharted sea, while giving our humanity an inexhaustible point of reference.

Prayer Phrase

Let your world of beauty capture me.

Spiritual Practice

Growing a Gracious, Generous Heart

Open your heart to God’s grace and generosity with a “breath prayer.” Let your breathing slow and deepen. Be aware of God’s breath moving in and out of your heart. Spend several minutes focusing on breathing in God’s generosity. With each breath, silently name one gift for which you are thankful. Let your heart expand to contain God’s gracious outpouring of love. With each breath out, name one gift you want to share from the overflow of your heart.

Today’s Prayer for Peace

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A Daily Dose of Faith
Diane Goold of St. Joseph, MO, USA

We know that we have passed from death to life because we love one another. Whoever does not love abides in death. We know love by this, that he laid down his life for us-and we ought to lay down our lives for one another. How does God’s love abide in anyone who has the world’s goods and sees a brother or sister in need and yet refuses help? -1 John 3:14, 16-17

Prescription medications are miraculous! These little pills are prescribed for a plethora of illnesses and conditions, and when taken as prescribed dramatically improve our quality of life.

Faith is a prescription for a higher quality of life as well. We can’t see, taste, smell, or touch it, but we know it’s there. Used properly, it can cure our ills, absorb our frustrations, and lighten our burdens. And unlike prescribed medications, it comes free of charge! Galatians 3:9 says, “For this reason, those who believe are blessed with Abraham who believed.”

To obtain it, we must confess our sins and embrace Jesus Christ as our Lord and Savior. We must pray for faith and take the prescribed dosage PRN (as needed) each day.

Is your faith lacking? If so, call on the greatest physician of all to renew it. Take as prescribed, get some much-needed rest, and wait for the positive results. There is no greater restorative power than faith!

“Faith is not believing that God can; it is knowing that God will” (Ben Stein).

Prayer Phrase

Let your world of beauty capture me.

Spiritual Practice

Growing a Gracious, Generous Heart

Open your heart to God’s grace and generosity with a “breath prayer.” Let your breathing slow and deepen. Be aware of God’s breath moving in and out of your heart. Spend several minutes focusing on breathing in God’s generosity. With each breath, silently name one gift for which you are thankful. Let your heart expand to contain God’s gracious outpouring of love. With each breath out, name one gift you want to share from the overflow of your heart.

Today’s Prayer for Peace

Engage in a daily practice of praying for peace in our world. Click here to read today’s prayer and be part of this practice of peace.

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