60 Seconds of Hope with Horace McMillon

Send us Fan Mail Have the Courage to Continue  Success is not final, failure is not fatal: It is the courage to continue that counts.” – Winston Churchill Success is a good. We dream of it. We plan for it. We work for it. We celebrate it when we reach. Hopefully we share it with others when we reach it.  But success is never permanent. It has to be earned again and again. We have to keep learning,...

Send us Fan Mail Love is Listening  60 Second Love Devotion, Day 10 “The first duty of love is to listen.” - Paul Tillich Excerpted from “366 Days of Love: A Devotional “ #60secondsofhope #366daysoflove #dailydevotion #dailydevotional #love #selfcare #growth #inspiration  #inspirationalquotes #lovequotes #meaning #purpose #positivity #positivemindset #personaldevelopment #personalempowerment  Supp...

Send us Fan Mail “What I love about the ministry of Jesus is that he identified the poor as blessed and the rich as needy...and then he went and ministered to them both.” - Rachel Held Evans  In most societies, in most of the world, over most of human history the poor have been dismissed, diminished, demonized, and marginalized. At same time the rich have been celebrated, glorified and often even...

Send us Fan Mail A Life that Makes a Difference  60 Second Love Devotional, Day 9 Excerpted from “366 Days of Love: A Devotional “ #60secondsofhope #366daysoflove #dailydevotion #dailydevotional #love #selfcare #growth #inspiration  #inspirationalquotes #lovequotes #meaning #purpose #positivity #positivemindset #personaldevelopment #personalempowerment  Support the show

Send us Fan Mail How to Follow Jesus Jesus never once talked about attending church services, but he talked constantly about healing the sick and feeding the hungry. That is what it seems to mean to be a follower of Jesus. —Richard Rohr  I was first licensed into ministry 30 years ago this year. I’ve since been ordained in two traditions. I had the privilege of serving 22 of those 30 years in past...

Send us Fan Mail Love God by Loving People  60 Second Love Devotional, Day 8 Excerpted from “366 Days of Love: A Devotional “ #60secondsofhope #366daysoflove #dailydevotion #dailydevotional #love #selfcare #growth #inspiration  #inspirationalquotes #lovequotes Support the show

Send us Fan Mail How We Put It Behind Us…  “Brothers and sisters, 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…” -Philippians 3:13-14 We have all made mistakes. Nearly all of us have said things we wish we hadn’t. We have done things we’d do differently or not at all. Some of us are burdened with guilt and s...

Send us Fan Mail The Earth Is Full of God’s Love  60 Second Love Devotional, Day 7 Excerpted from “366 Days of Love: A Devotional” #60secondsofhope #366daysoflove #dailydevotion #dailydevotional #love #selfcare #growth #inspiration  #inspirationalquotes #lovequotes Support the show

Send us Fan Mail Live a Life Worth Living  “This has been my life; I found it worth living.” – Bertrand Russell I believe the measure of a successful life is being able, like Russell, to look back and say it was worth living.  What does that look like? For me I hear the words of a song most famously sung by Mahalia Jackson:  If I can help somebody, as I pass along, If I can cheer somebody, with a...

Send us Fan Mail There is no fear in love. Today we pray that the lens of fear forever be shattered as we learn to trust in God’s unending love… Excerpted from “366 Days of Love: A Devotional  “#60secondsofhope #366daysoflove #inspiration #dailydevotional #dailydevotion #love #positivity #growth #selfcare #personaldevelopment #prayer #positivemindset  Support the show

Send us Fan Mail How to Stay Present and Awake  Staying awake comes not from willpower but from a wholehearted surrender to the moment—as it is. If we can be present, we will experience what most of us mean by God…” —Richard Rohr  Stay present. Stay awake. Stay in the moment. This, to me, appears to be a universal principle that crosses traditions and the intellectual constructs we call theology. ...

Send us Fan Mail Let Love Show Us What’s Best. 60 Second Love Devotional, Day 5 #60secondsofhope #366daysoflove #dailydevotion #dailydevotional #love #selfcare #growth #inspiration  #inspirationalquotes  Support the show

Send us Fan Mail What Do You Love? Do That!  “Just don’t give up trying to do what you really want to do. Where there’s love and inspiration, I don’t think you can go wrong.” – Ella Fitzgerald Where do you fill most fulfilled? Where do you feel the most inspired? What makes you come alive? What are you passionate about? What brings you joy? What do you love?  Even if we should all live to be one h...

Send us Fan Mail “God is Love” a 60 Second Love Devotional taken from “366 Days of Love”  Support the show

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Send us Fan Mail Enjoy Your Life Including Your Work  “I know that there is nothing better for them than to be happy and enjoy themselves as long as they live; moreover, it is God's gift that all should eat and drink and take pleasure in all their toil.” -Ecclesiastes 3:12-13 Many years ago, back when I was in school, I worked food service. From time to time I worked the salad bar. Let me tel...

Send us Fan Mail Love Is Now in Season  For everything there is a season and a time for every matter under heaven: a time to be born and a time to die; a time to plant and a time to pluck up what is planted; a time to kill and a time to heal; a time to break down and a time to build up; a time to weep and a time to laugh; a time to mourn and a time to dance; a time to throw away stones and a time...

Send us Fan Mail For 2025 I will continue to post Hope Filled minutes of inspiration through “60 Seconds of Hope”.  As part of this work to this I will add a second 60 second post in the form of a love themed prayer and devotion drawn from my book “366 Days of Love: A Devotional.“ Support the show

Send us Fan Mail 60 Seconds of Hope For 2025… Wishing you all a very happy new year!  May you and those you love find possibility and purpose, peace and satisfaction as you journey through the new year.  May your days be filled with joy and your lives with love.  For 2025 I will continue to post Hope Filled minutes of inspiration through “60 Seconds of Hope”.  As part of this work to this I will a...

Send us Fan Mail Do you want to experience more love? Do you want to be more loving? Would you like to help create a more loving world? Join me each day for a 60 Second Prayer and Devotion.  #366daysoflove #60secondsofhope #dailyprayer #dailymeditation #dailydevotional #inspiration #love  Support the show

Send us Fan Mail For Whomever Needs to Hear This You are, all of you are gods and goddesses, children of the most High. (Psalm 82:6) You are God’s handcrafted masterpiece, wondrously made with the breath of life flowing through your body, and a heart beating to the rhythms of the universe.  You are never alone. You are fully enveloped by the one in whom we live and move and have our being, by the...

Send us Fan Mail Find Your Climate and Your Soil My mother loves plants and flowers. When I was growing up back in Nebraska, she kept a flower bed full of perennials and a living room full of house plants. One in particular, I remember being in the living room 10-15 years. It was healthy. It always remained the same size in the same pot. When my folks retired, they moved to West Palm Beach, Florid...

Send us Fan Mail Our Years Are Like the Leaves  “The years Fall like dry leaves From the top-less tree Of eternity. Does it matter That another leaf has fallen?” -New Year by Langston Hughes How many Pharaohs of Egypt can you name? How many emperors of Rome or ancient China? Most reading or listening to this in the US would be hard pressed to name all the presidents much less name any of their acc...

Send us Fan Mail Where Do We Want to Be More Loving?  After reflecting on where we experienced love this past year, and after reflecting on how we have shown love, it’s good for us to reflect on how we would like to be more loving.  Where are the times and places, what are the situations, who are the people around which we’d like our life’s response to be rooted and grounded in love? Not anger, bi...

Send us Fan Mail When Did We Show Love? After reflecting on where we experienced love over this past year, it’s good for us to take some time to reflect on the times that we have shown love.  One of the universal spiritual principles is that we tend to reap what we sow. The things we put out into the world are the things that tend to come back to us.  If we want to experience kindness and tenderne...