Mid-week Devotional:
Week of October 20, 2025
Mid-week Devotional week of October 20, 2025
A week ago, my husband and I pulled up all the watermelon plants, cantaloupe plants, broccoli plants, and tomato plants in our gardens in Minnesota. Freezing temperatures were soon to arrive along with snow, sleet, and ice in place of rain.
We wore shorts and t-shirts when we left Minnesota last Sunday morning anticipating the warmth we would feel as we headed south to Texas. When we stopped for the night just south of Topeka, Kansas we hurriedly got our hooded sweatshirts out of the car. The temperature was in the upper 40’s. Sammy, our 14-year-old dog, didn’t need a coat on. God created her with long shaggy fur.
The cold temperature and our response reminded me that diversity is present throughout all creation. There is not “one size fits all” in creation. There are different biomes around the world such as deserts, oceans, mountains, hills, grass lands, and ice-covered land at the north and south poles. Climates differ around the world from hot and cold to dry and wet.
All around you and I there is evidence of life from one-celled to multi-cellular organisms. There are plants, animals, and humans. Everywhere we look there is diversity. God didn’t create life all the same. Everywhere you and I look around us life varies except one never varies; God’s eternal presence.
Scripture for this week’s Mid-week Devotional comes from the Old Testament book of Psalms, Psalm 119: 89-90.
Hear the Word of God,
“89 The LORD exists forever; your word is firmly fixed in heaven. 90 Your faithfulness endures to all generations; you have established the earth, and it stands fast.”
This is God’s word for God’s people. Thanks be to God. AMEN.
Scripture from Psalm 119 reminds us of God's continual presence, of God’s gift of life.
Scripture reminds you and I that we are not present by mistake.
We are here to worship God our creator, Christ our redeemer, and Holy Spirit our spiritual guide within our heart and soul.
In the days ahead:
may you look upon the world around you with new eyes that see the diversity of life that provides you with food, water, and shelter
may you look upon the world around you with new eyes that see the presence of the Trinity surrounding you
may you look upon the world around you with new eyes that see the world as a gift of love from God
In the days ahead may you give thanks to God for the gift of life.
Peace be with you.
AMEN.