Mid-week Devotional:

Week of June 21, 2026

We left our home in Texas last Sunday and arrived at my brother’s in Minnesota on Monday. The place we stay at is called the “Shome,” because it is a metal building with 1/2 living area and 1/2 garage.

We have been busy unpacking, settling into a new daily routine, plus planting sweet corn, mowing lawn, and triming fence lines. This weekend we are helping my brother with his daily chores by feeding cattle and their calves, chickens, cats, a dog, and checking fence lines around the pastures where his cattle graze.

• As I look all around me I see miles and miles of green fields of corn, soybeans, and alfalfa.

• In this place I am reminded that all I see is God’s creation.

• I am in awe of the vastness of the world in which we live and I give thanks for life. 

The first 2 verses in the Bible are words of reminder to all humanity that life is a gift from our creator.  

Hear the Word of God as written in Genesis 1:1-2 

“1 In the beginning when God created the heavens and the earth, 2 the earth was a formless void and darkness covered the face of the deep, while a wind from God swept over the face of the waters.”

This is God’s Word for God’s people. Thanks be to God. AMEN

Today and in the days ahead may you take time to look at the world around you.

And may you take time to give thanks to God for life.

Peace be with you.

AMEN.