Family Devotions

Hear my prayer, O Lord. I am your passing guest. That I may smile again, before I depart.—PSALM 39:12-13 (NRSV)

A cheerful heart is good medicine…—PROVERBS 17:22 (NIV)

Can a mother forget her nursing child?… But even if it were possible, I would not forget you.—ISAIAH 49:15 (NIV)

Pleasant words are a honeycomb, sweet to the soul and healing to the bones.—PROVERBS 16:24 (NASB)

But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, forbearance, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self-control.—GALATIANS 5:22-23 (NIV)

Even to your old age I am he, and to gray hairs I will carry you.—ISAIAH 46:4 (ESV)

There is a time for everything, and a season for every activity under the heavens: a time to be born and a time to die…—ECCLESIASTES 3:1-2 (NIV)

…You also ought to wash one another’s feet.—JOHN 13:14 (NRSV)

Let all that you do be done with love.—1 CORINTHIANS 16:14 (NKJV)

Therefore, we do not lose heart. Even though our outward man is perishing, yet the inward man is being renewed day by day.—2 CORINTHIANS 4:16 (NLV)

Then the Lord God will wipe away the tears from all faces—ISAIAH 25:8 (ISV)

My times are in your hand.—PSALM 31:15 (NRSV)