For you have died, and your life is hidden in Christ. Colossians 3:3 To read today’s portion of scripture, you can purchase The One Year Bible or find the following in your Bible: Jeremiah 8:8-9:26 Colossians 3:1-17 Psalm 78:32-55 Proverbs 24:27 It occurred to me once that Jesus left the world the way He entered it—-humbly, obscurely, without the reverence and adoration He should have received. They laid him in a cave and locked him in with a stone. And in the darkness of that cave, his body lay alone and unwatched. When you’re a stay-at-home mom, you can often feel like you’re in a cave too. We feel invisible.…

Let your gentleness be known to all. Philippians 4:5 To read today’s portion of scripture, you can purchase The One Year Bible or find the following in your Bible: Jeremiah 1:1-2:30 Philippians 4:1-23 Psalm 75:1-10 Proverbs 24:17-20 I wasn’t trying to hurt my daughter. But I wasn’t trying to not hurt her, either. And sometimes, that’s the same thing. Tera was six–old enough, I felt, to learn how to brush her own hair. Now, I’m not a monster (although you may disagree by the end of this post). I didn’t simply toss the brush at her and say, “You’re on your own.” No, we went through Brushing 101 together first.…

Not that I have already obtained all this, or have already been made perfect, but I press on to take hold of that for which Christ Jesus took hold of me. Brothers, I do not consider myself yet to have taken hold of it. But one thing I do: Forgetting what is behind and straining toward what is ahead, I press on toward the goal to win the prize for which God has called me heavenward in Christ Jesus Philippians 3:12-14 To read today’s portion of scripture, you can purchase The One Year Bible or find the following in your Bible: Isaiah 66:1-24 Philippians 3:4-21 Psalm 74:1-23 Proverbs 24:15-16 When…