Daylight Meditations

What would you have others to do to you? Treat you with respect and honor and love and kindness. Be honest always. Be faithful and true. And, pray. Jesus calls on us to be the first to offer these to others. He talks about it all the time. Overcome evil with good. Sometimes it's hard to do. So what's the key? Maybe just remembering our God and how He treats us. We have already been given every blessing from God Himself, the source of every good gift. Let us find our fulfillment in Him. And as we receive from Him, we then can give out to others.

Daylight Meditations is a daily podcast from CFO North America.  Please visit www.cfonorthamerica.org to learn more about our retreats.

Contributors: Michelle DeChant, Adam Maddock, Christine Mauriello and Joy Peyton

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 the grace to forgive ourselves as we forgive others, so You, Father, are honored by our behavior. 

Daylight Meditations is a daily podcast from CFO North America.  Please visit www.cfonorthamerica.org to learn more about our retreats.

Contributors: Carol Chase, Michelle DeChant, Nancy Holland and Adam Maddock

This meditation gathers together several statements that confirm and remind us of the truths of being 'in Christ'. If we are made by God for doing good, given everything we need to accomplish what God has prepared already for us to do, might we then conclude that there is nothing that can keep us from doing it - except our own choices? It is our choice to trust and live in the belief that what God has planned can indeed be accomplished with and 'in Him'.

Daylight Meditations is a daily podcast from CFO North America.  Please visit www.cfonorthamerica.org to learn more about our retreats.

Contributors: Michelle DeChant, Adam Maddock, Joy Peyton and Phil Reaser

This meditation once again focuses our attention on God, His mercy, and kindness. He doesn't miss a thing. All of creation is in His care. Might we look for it? Do we recognize His care for the wild animals for the forests and fields? Have we seen Him lift the head of the one who felt hopeless? Have we entered into this daily love by praying for those who cross our paths, who struggle silently to keep their homes, and buy food for today? Father, challenge us to go farther out in our compassion, in our giving, in our own struggles to trust You are going to care for us - no matter what.

Daylight Meditations is a daily podcast from CFO North America.  Please visit www.cfonorthamerica.org to learn more about our retreats.

Contributors: Michelle DeChant, Nancy Holland, and Adam Maddock

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 already in the place of eternal life and called to Love other as You love us. 

Daylight Meditations is a daily podcast from CFO North America.  Please visit www.cfonorthamerica.org to learn more about our retreats.

Contributors: Michelle DeChant, Adam Maddock, Joy Peyton and Phil Reaser

This meditation is simple and short, yet packed with the eternal Truth about God's character - He is Good. Love does what is right and good for those it loves. We are the object of His affections, people for whom He wants to be with and to whom He desires to give gifts. Rich in mercy, He see us worth dying for, worth caring for, worth loving deeply. 

Daylight Meditations is a daily podcast from CFO North America.  Please visit www.cfonorthamerica.org to learn more about our retreats.

Contributors: Michelle DeChant, Nancy Holland, and Adam Maddock

Father, You are the source of knowledge and understanding and wisdom. You have demonstrated how to be gentle and merciful. You love to help. You want us to live wisely. Would You give us courage to trust You, to come to You for advice? Remind us that Your ways are better, Your thoughts are higher, Your love is so much deeper than we realize. 

Daylight Meditations is a daily podcast from CFO North America.  Please visit www.cfonorthamerica.org to learn more about our retreats.

Contributors: Michelle DeChant, Adam Maddock, Joy Peyton and Phil Reaser

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 www.cfonorthamerica.org to learn more about our retreats.

Contributors: Carol Chase, Michelle DeChant, Nancy Holland and Adam Maddock

Perhaps peace is one of the greatest desires of our hearts. What we see and hear everyday often threatens our stability and trust which is in the system that suppose to protect us. Jesus knew only His Father had the power to protect him, and he trusting that even though His physical body might not survive, He would. Where is our trust? Who will keep us? In whom can we rest and be at peace?

Daylight Meditations is a daily podcast from CFO North America.  Please visit www.cfonorthamerica.org to learn more about our retreats.

Contributors: Michelle DeChant, Adam Maddock, Joy Peyton and Phil Reaser

It is for freedom we have been freed! No longer bound to slavery, God has fought for us. May we walk through the doors now open into freedom, and proclaim the good news, to those who are poor in spirit. May the Spirit of God give us the words they need to hear to believe they too can walk out of their prisons and live in God's healing light. 

Daylight Meditations is a daily podcast from CFO North America.  Please visit www.cfonorthamerica.org to learn more about our retreats.

Contributors: Michelle DeChant, Adam Maddock, Christine Mauriello, and Joy Peyton