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Forgiveness can feel impossible when someone has truly hurt you—especially when the offense was intentional, public, or deeply damaging. Today’s devotional doesn’t pretend forgiveness is easy. It acknowledges the very real emotions that rise up when we’ve been lied about, betrayed, or harmed, and it names what many of us experience: bitterness and grudges can quietly take r...

Gratitude can feel impossible when life is painful. When loss is loud, when circumstances feel unfair, and when your heart is carrying more than it can hold, “be thankful” can sound like an unreachable goal. This devotional doesn’t minimize that reality—it starts in the middle of it. The author describes sitting beside her terminally ill daughter on a beautiful day she coul...

There are seasons when you feel completely spent—yet life still demands more. The devotional opens in that familiar space: deadlines piling up, responsibilities pressing in, and exhaustion that doesn’t pause just because you need rest. The author describes hitting the wall after a full summer of parenting and work demands, realizing that even with the desire to recover, life sometimes ...

Love is one of the most familiar words in Scripture—and one of the most challenging to live out. Jesus summed up God’s greatest commandments with a simple directive: love God fully, and love your neighbor as yourself. It sounds straightforward, but the devotional reminds us that biblical love isn’t driven by convenience, comfort, or emotion. It’s a choice rooted in humble o...

Life with other people is full of opportunities to practice patience—because people will annoy us. Sometimes it’s the small things: lateness, forgetfulness, insensitive comments, noisy habits, or careless moments that stack up until irritation starts to simmer. When we feel annoyed, it’s easy to believe we’re justified in snapping back, withdrawing, or keeping a mental reco...

It’s amazing how quickly a small thing can throw everything off. In music, even one string slightly out of tune can disrupt an entire song. This devotional begins with that image—musicians tuning their instruments before a performance, listening closely for what’s true, steady, and right. With practice, they can detect when a note is off. And once the instruments are tuned proper...

Being wronged cuts deeply—especially when the hurt comes from someone you trusted or stood alongside in faith. This devotional speaks honestly to that pain, sharing the emotional weight of betrayal, disappointment, and offense that can surface when others turn away from truth or cause harm through their actions. In moments like these, it’s tempting to respond with exposure, retaliation...

It’s possible to believe in God and still try to keep distance from Him. Sometimes we don’t call it “running”—we call it independence, freedom, or needing space. But this devotional is honest about what running can look like: changing locations, changing environments, changing relationships, and hoping that if we get far enough away, we won’t feel the conviction...

Few things feel as heartbreaking as seeing a child face injury, illness, or a frightening diagnosis. This devotional begins from a place of personal vulnerability—the author shares her own fear and anxiety while facing serious medical uncertainty, and that experience opens her eyes even more to the heavy burden children and their families carry. If it’s difficult for an adult to proces...

Our hearts are always looking for something to satisfy them. In a world built on instant gratification, it’s easy to assume that the next experience, achievement, relationship, or possession will finally make us feel full. But this devotional gently challenges that pursuit by asking a deeper question: have you truly found satisfaction in Jesus—and do you believe He is enough?

It’s natural to make plans and build dreams for the future—sometimes down to the smallest details. But this devotional reminds us that God often reshapes our desires in unexpected ways, not to disrupt us, but to lead us into something better than we would have chosen on our own. The author shares a personal story of feeling settled and satisfied with “the plan,” only to sen...

Sanctity of Life Day is a reminder that human life is not accidental or ordinary—it is created, intentional, and sacred. This devotional centers on the biblical truth that people have value because they are made in God’s image. Our worth isn’t earned by performance, productivity, age, ability, or circumstance. It’s given by the Creator who formed us, knows us, and calls us ...

Talent can impress people, but character shapes environments. This devotional comes from the perspective of a longtime worship leader who has seen firsthand how a person’s humility, integrity, and teachability can either strengthen a team—or quietly unravel it. Skill may draw attention, but when pride, dishonesty, or unrepentant sin is present beneath the surface, it eventually spills ...

When life feels heavy, it doesn’t just affect our schedules—it affects our thoughts. This devotional begins with a picture of community: a small group faithfully studying Scripture together in the middle of real-life chaos—toddlers, teens, and nonstop responsibilities. But even in that meaningful rhythm, they began to notice something: resistance. Delays, disruptions, sickness, f...

So much of life happens at full speed. We move from task to task, responsibility to responsibility, often missing the quiet gifts God places in our path. This devotional begins with a small interruption in the middle of an ordinary chore—one unexpected moment of wonder as a hummingbird appears near wildflowers. Just a few seconds of stillness became a reminder that God is present, creative, ...

Bad news can feel relentless. Whether it’s headlines, social media, or conversations with others, we’re constantly reminded that we live in a broken world marked by suffering and sin. When the stream of tragedy and hardship seems nonstop, it’s natural to feel overwhelmed, anxious, or even powerless. This devotional names that reality honestly—and then points us toward a ste...

Awe has a way of fading when life gets crowded. Deadlines, responsibilities, and endless distractions can dull our awareness of the beauty that surrounds us every day. This devotional invites us to return to wonder—through the kind of attentive noticing that poetry captures so well. Poetry helps us slow down, see more deeply, and reconnect with meaning. And in a similar way, creation can bec...

Our world is filled with constant distractions, and technology has made it easier than ever to stay busy without being truly present. We can scroll, text, post, and reply all day long—often without ever having a real conversation. This devotional points out something many of us feel but don’t always admit: when we lose the art of meaningful communication with people, it can also weaken...

It’s easy to measure our worth by what we accomplish—or what we fail to accomplish. Many of us go to bed replaying the day’s shortcomings: missed goals, broken habits, forgotten disciplines, and moments where we didn’t live up to who we want to be. Even when we know our identity isn’t supposed to rest on productivity, performance, or spiritual “checklists,&rdquo...