Daylight Meditations

As you listen today, let these words focus your attention on God, maker of the universe who is also comforts  and heals our broken hearts. May these moments of reflection bring you to a place of peace, knowing you are heard and noticed.  Daylight Meditations is a daily podcast from CFO North America.  Please visit CFONorthAmerica.org to learn more about our retreats, and online cour...

Scripture tells us: Don’t repay evil for evil. Share in others’ sorrows. Do what is just and right. Might living with and in humility help us form the attitude of not seeking our own good, but another’s? To be like Jesus, is to take these words seriously, choose to love, choose to forgive, choose to do the right thing – every time. Daylight Meditations is a daily podcast from CFO North America. &n...

Paul reminds the Philippians (and us!) to not fret or worry. Instead of worrying, pray; encouraging us to let Jesus be the center of our life. He will also displace our worry, our fears and our doubts. When we choose to rejoice, and trust Him, He gives us a sense of belonging, of wholeness. Daylight Meditations is a daily podcast from CFO North America.  Please visit CFONorthAmerica.org to le...

Psalms 89:14 (NIV) says, “Righteousness and justice are the foundation of your throne; love and faithfulness go before you.” God’s justice is based on truth. Our hearts envy and stubbornly hold onto ‘our rights’. This divides our hearts and prevents us from grasping the truth that God’s love for all of us is the same and is deeper than we know. Should we not also let His love deepen ours for anoth...

As you listen to this series, Conversations with God, consider the greatest value of your best conversations. Were they not a time of getting to know someone? Did your heart find comfort in realizing someone wanted to you about you? that you in turn, were delighted to share in another’s life? Daylight Meditations is a daily podcast from CFO North America.  Please visit CFONorthAmerica.org to...

Let justice roll on like a river, righteousness like a never-failing stream! ( Amos 5:24 ). God’s words ring clear throughout the Scriptures – do right, defend the oppressed, give to the poor. Justice and right-living go hand-in-hand.  Daylight Meditations is a daily podcast from CFO North America.  Please visit CFONorthAmerica.org to learn more about our retreats, and online courses. Co...

In the midst of anything, the gospel can either change us or change the situation. The key is to continue to focus on the gospel, the good news.  God assures us He works everything for our good and according to his purpose. And what is His purpose? To bring us into the likeness of His Son. Jesus has been victorious over all things! So, if God is for us, who can be against us? God’s love never...

Today's meditation is inspired by phrases within the liturgy of the Mass and used in several of the sacramental denominations.  Beethoven’s “Mass in C Major, Opus 86” includes the words beautifully sung in Latin.  The meditation’s words are paraphrased but prayerfully only add, to the actual words of the liturgy’s reverence, awe, and wonder for our Lord. As you listen today,  take i...

It is God's desire to dwell with us. Jesus, the Son of God, bridged the gulf between heaven and earth. It is the Spirit of God that sustaiins us, a gift from God that He is with us here and that we will be with Him in heaven when we die. We are not alone here and we will always be cared for by God, wherever we are. He is with us and we are with Him, even though we don’t yet see it all fully. Dayli...

This morning’s meditation is taken from the song, “O Breathe on Me, O Breath of God” by Edwin Hatch (1835-1889).  We are told in Genesis it was the breath of God that brought life to Adam.  God’s breath is present still, bringing, us life today. Ponder each verse as we meditate, in gratitude, what springs to life from the breath of God. Daylight Meditations is a daily podcast from CFO No...

We may not always understand the totality of Jesus power, a divine and perfect source for all that produces effective living: faith, goodness, self-control and love. To forget these qualities are ours is to forget we are now clean from our past sins and made fit for kingdom living now.  Daylight Meditations is a daily podcast from CFO North America.  Please visit CFONorthAmerica.org to l...

Father, give us the courage we need to speak, to articulate hope and a future to those who doubt, who despair of help. Would you  let us see what You see - those hearts that cry for hope, who wonder if there's any chance for change in their lives? Would you soften our hearts toward others and accept Your love that even we spurn when we're rebellious of Your direction and guidance? Grant us th...

Our challenge in this life is to let our spirit in Jesus, be the lens through which we view life and other people. Life and light extend way beyond the physical realm of our senses. Paul wisely advises,  to fix our eyes not on what is seen, but on what is unseen, since what is seen is temporary, but what is unseen is eternal. Enter this time of quiet with confidence there's more than we see a...

We have a chosen destiny. Known by God before we were born, His plans for us are for our good, His gifts are perfect and no need will go unmet. Steep you life in the reality of God and His great ways, higher than ours, way greater than we can imagine. Trust in His love for you. Daylight Meditations is a daily podcast from CFO North America.  Please visit CFONorthAmerica.org to learn more abou...

When Christ was raised from the dead, we were raised with Him. ( Col. 3:3 ) Living from a resurrected perspective means viewing our lives from God's priorities. Love and gentleness supersede pride and personal rights. Let God's Word breathe life into you today and see from a new perspective. Daylight Meditations is a daily podcast from CFO North America.  Please visit CFONorthAmerica.org to l...

This meditation reminds us that God listens when we call Him.  In quietness and peace we can trust He will take care of us in times of distress.  Daylight Meditations is a daily podcast from CFO North America.  Please visit CFONorthAmerica.org to learn more about our retreats, and online courses. Contributors: Carol Chase, Michelle DeChant, Adam Maddock, and Christine Mauriello

Once in a while we need reminding that there's more! More life. More that exists beyond our ability to see it. There's more to us than our bodies. There's more for us to experience after time ends. Father, open our eyes to this More, that we will know more about who we are and why You desire we see how life today is only the beginning of our experience with You. Open our hearts to see we are alrea...

James tells us, . . . faith by itself, if it is not accompanied by action, is dead ( James 2:17 ). And he goes on to explain that we can say we have faith all day long but the proof is in the pudding, so to speak. If we do have real faith, it will play out in our actions. We can believe a chair will hold us up and then the resulting action of that faith will be that we actually sit in the chair. W...

We are asked to trust Jesus' words that sustaining Life is Him. In Him. By Him. Because of Him. Do we trust Him? On the tree of death He gave His physical life. As the source of all life, the Tree of Life, we are invited to eat and be filled. Let us delight ourselves in Him, in His presence with us, in the eternal life we have even now.  Daylight Meditations is a daily podcast from CFO North...

As you listen today, look for thankfulness. It is a key to finding peace in storms, to winning the war of doubt and the anxiety. It is advice for those of us who are weary of the war within and without. The Holy Spirit will bring to mind those things that matter most - for which we are grateful and blessed. Daylight Meditations is a daily podcast from CFO North America.  Please visit CFONorth...

How amazing that God, who reigns in Heaven, a high and holy place, also resides with us, and in turn we with Him. In Christ, we have the privilege of containing the Spirit of God. Father, we are humbled by Your presence with and in us. Would You make us instruments of peace in this world? Daylight Meditations is a daily podcast from CFO North America.  Please visit CFONorthAmerica.org to lear...

In thanking God for life, we acknowledge Him as One who is greater than us, whose compassion and forgiveness produces a song that we can't help but sing. We are pulled from the brink of death into a field of light, walking with God.  Daylight Meditations is a daily podcast from CFO North America.  Please visit CFONorthAmerica.org to learn more about our retreats, and online courses. Cont...

God has given us His peace, His righteousness and has reconnected us to Him. His intention is for there to never be a separation or break in our relationship. And it is so. He keeps this relationship. We experience by our choice to do so – every moment. Think about this as you listen today. Daylight Meditations is a daily podcast from CFO North America.  Please visit CFONorthAmerica.org to le...

God loves songs of joy--songs of victory, songs of triumph, songs inspired by His very presence and power and seeing His wonders. God desires good for His children. He wants to fill the whole universe, all His creation with good, with joy and gladness, with peace and victory, with love and life. This is God's joy. You are God's joy.  Let Him replace your worries, your fears, your cares with a...

What we think about we become. Where we put our attention, what we dwell on in our thoughts guides our actions and decisions. May we remember the power of words, the strength of consistent intentions and the importance of right choices. Daylight Meditations is a daily podcast from CFO North America.  Please visit CFONorthAmerica.org to learn more about our retreats, and online courses. Contri...