daily-devotional

When news of violence against young Black men reaches our living rooms, praise can feel hard. A devotional on Psalm 34 for families who pray at the door as their sons go out.

Many of us have built homes for working, paying and rushing, but not for resting. A reflection on Genesis 2 and Psalm 127, and on letting the house we labour for become a place of real rest.

Anyone who has lived through a renovation knows it gets worse before it gets better. The same is often true of growth in a person, and in a household.

Caribbean homes live by seasons: dry, rainy, hurricane. Paul told Timothy to be ready in season and out. What does readiness look like for a family’s faith and hospitality?

Many single Christian women quietly put their home plans on hold, waiting for marriage. A reflection on contentment, prayer and building a life, and a home, in the season you are actually in.

Looking back from a better season, many families remember the cramped flat, the borrowed furniture and the months when money barely stretched. Deuteronomy invites us to see who kept us there.

Paul and Silas sang in prison at midnight, but the story does not end at the prison doors. It ends in a jailer’s house, with water, a meal and a whole household changed.

Before any plan is drawn, a home begins as something imagined. A reflection on Ephesians 3:20 and holding our hopes for a house with both boldness and open hands.

When a hurricane warning goes out, every household becomes a shelter. A devotional on Psalm 27:5, the ordinary work of getting ready and the deeper refuge we need in any day of trouble.

Many Caribbean families abroad owe their first homes to grandparents who saved through pardner and prayer. A devotional of remembrance and gratitude for the road behind us.

Psalm 2 pictures God laughing on His throne, and Proverbs 31 describes a woman who can laugh at the days to come. What would it take for our homes to laugh like that?

When the prayer for a home of your own is taking far too long, Galatians 6 points to an unexpected way to wait: keep sowing good into other people’s houses.

The children still play in the yard. The adults carry the bills, the repairs and the worry. A devotional on rejoicing always for the people who keep a household running.

Psalm 2 pictures God laughing on His throne, and Proverbs 31 describes a woman who can laugh at the days to come. What would it take for our homes to laugh like that?

Many of us have built homes for working, paying and rushing, but not for resting. A reflection on Genesis 2 and Psalm 127, and on letting the house we labour for become a place of real rest.