DOING LIFE: Daily Devotions For Finding Peace in Stressful Times
We live in a world that has been driven to the brink by natural disasters, political divisiveness, and a pandemic that threatened to crush the world's socioeconomic infrastructure, no less the health and welfare of every individual. Dr. Thurston draws on a lifetime of experience in medicine, his formal theological training in seminary, and his love of music, sailing, animals and children, to bring you these first 365 devotions. Through laughter and tears, each will reorient you to what's truly important in life, and provide you with new approaches to finding lasting peace and contentment! Anyone dealing with stress or grief, or simply feeling lost, will find solace in these podcasts!
- Update frequency
- every day
- Average duration
- 5 minutes
- Episodes
- 1306
- Years Active
- 2022 - 2025
February 21 Doing Life: Practicality
G.K. Chesterton was a master of wit and practicality. "The Poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese!" for example.
February 20 Doing Life: That's Not Fair
Comparing yourself to others is the very quickest route to unhappiness!
February 18 Doing Life: Tai Chi
"The more you read and meditate on the Bible the more it will astonish you!" Charles Spurgeon
February 17 Doing Life: Becalmed
"Never sail further than you know you can row back!" Danish Proverb
February 16 Doing Life: Reach Out and Touch
"Never under estimate the lingering effects of a dash of spontaneous comfort." Gina Greenlea
February 15 Doing Life: What Does God Want?
Micah 6:8 Exactly What God Wants
February 14 Doing Life: A Little Sweetness
"Beginning today, treat everyone you meet as though you will pass away at midnight!" (Og Mandino)
February 13 Doing Life: Waves
The inexorable rise of the wave after the trough assures of God's omnipotence and power.
February 12 Doing Life: Dancing
There's a reason the songwriter refers to Jesus as the Lord of the Dance!
February 11 Doing Life: Rude
"Rudeness is the weal man's imitation of strength." Eric Hoffer
February 10 Doing Life: Pay Attention
Don't let the wonders of God's Creation pass you by!
February 9 Doing Life: Technology
God made man the smartest creature in the universe. Technology can be used in a myriad of ways to do exactly what God commanded us: Care for the earth and love each other!
February 8 Doing Life : Soldiering On
The first duty of a soldier is endurance of fatigue. Courage is only the second.
February 7 Doing Life: Tiny House
Living abundantly has nothing whatever to do with having an abundance of stuff!!
February 6 Doing Life: Be Perfect
God wants our moral code to evolve from His nature.
February 5 Doing Life: Be Still
You can be most productive from God's perspective when you are perfectly still: and listening!
February 4 Doing Life: Weakness
Realizing we can do nothing in our own strength allows God to use us more effectively!
February 3 Doing Life: Thank God
Start everyday with wonder as my grandson does, and THANK GOD!
February 2 Doing Life : The Hundred Acre Wood
The wonderful thing about Tiggers, is i"m the ONLY ONE!!!! (House at Pooh Corner)
You are uniquely made by the Creator of the Universe!!