The Connection Corner
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Daily Devotional
Hope in Life’s RiptidesAugust 6, 2026 - 7:00 am
Kindness Delivered to Your DoorAugust 5, 2026 - 7:00 am
The Greener Grass TrapAugust 4, 2026 - 7:00 am
Fireworks Fade, Freedom LastsAugust 3, 2026 - 7:00 am
The Power of a PauseAugust 2, 2026 - 7:00 am
What To Do with Unanswered PrayersAugust 1, 2026 - 7:00 am
Rescued From Life’s RiptideJuly 31, 2026 - 7:00 am
Clear Truth in an Upside-Down WorldJuly 30, 2026 - 7:00 am
Wisdom Works When You ListenJuly 29, 2026 - 7:00 am
Trusting God in the FreefallJuly 28, 2026 - 7:00 am
HEART OF THE ARTIST
Holding on Through HeartbreakJuly 5, 2026 - 7:00 am
Faith That Falls ForwardJune 18, 2026 - 7:00 am
From Dusty Bibles to Daily BreadJune 14, 2026 - 7:00 am
Leaving No SurvivorsJune 7, 2026 - 7:00 am
When Joy Fills RoomsMay 31, 2026 - 7:00 am
STORIES ABOUT SONGS
One Way Through the ChaosJuly 26, 2026 - 7:00 am
The Gospel Still Changes EverythingJuly 12, 2026 - 7:00 am
The Beauty in the Broken RoadJune 28, 2026 - 7:00 am- From Dusty Bibles to Daily BreadJune 14, 2026 - 7:00 am
- Leaving No SurvivorsJune 7, 2026 - 7:00 am
Stories About Songs
- One Way Through the ChaosJuly 26, 2026 - 7:00 am
- The Gospel Still Changes EverythingJuly 12, 2026 - 7:00 am
- The Beauty in the Broken RoadJune 28, 2026 - 7:00 am
- From Dusty Bibles to Daily BreadJune 14, 2026 - 7:00 am
- Leaving No SurvivorsJune 7, 2026 - 7:00 am
Love That Didn’t Look Away
Bri Dunn, Daily DevotionalYou’ll never regret being kind, even to a stranger.
Kelly is halfway through her coffee at the little diner when she notices them—two women at the counter, moving in opposite directions. One is paying her bill, ready to leave. The other has just sat down, phone pressed to her ear, but she isn’t really talking. She’s crying and barely holding it together.
She hasn’t ordered any food. She’s just…sitting there.
The older woman pauses on her way out. Kelly could almost see the questions cross her face— Should I say something? Should I not?
But she steps in anyway.
“Do you need a hug?” She says simply.
That’s all it takes. The younger woman breaks, and they hold each other right there in the middle of the diner.
“I don’t know what you’ve got going on,” she says, “but it doesn’t matter. You seem like you need a little encouragement.”
Then she calls the waitress over. “Order her whatever she wants. I’ll pay for it.”
And they sit there together quietly for a moment.
Kelly keeps thinking about what she witnessed. She knows that feeling—knowing you could encourage someone and feeling prompted in your heart to do it. That feeling is so easy to ignore. So easy to second-guess and stay seated.
But what if those moments carry more weight than we realize? What if every act of kindness toward someone hurting is also an act of love toward Jesus Himself? What if noticing people matters more than we think it does?
That morning didn’t look like much.
Just a hug. A meal. A woman who didn’t look away.
And maybe that’s what today can look like for you too. Because simple obedience, offered in love, can change everything for someone in need.
A MOMENT TO REFLECT
Discipline, Desire, Delight
Daily Devotional, David HallI grew up in the nineties, and I don’t know if I imagined it, but…we were all told vegetables were gross.
I mean, on cartoons they avoided broccoli at all costs, so I treated it like the plague. In the school cafeteria line, I would pile my tray with anything but the vegetables.
It was probably just marketing, but it’s funny because years later, I became a high school teacher. And I finally tried veggies in the school cafeteria.
And they were… good.
Like, genuinely, they were the best seasoned thing on the menu. I stood standing there thinking, “Wait—have I been wrong about this my whole life?”
It wasn’t just the cafeteria. Every summer, my mom would make tomato pie. And depending on who you are, that either sounds incredible or completely disgusting.
To me it looked gross, so it was gross. No further investigation needed. Because…vegetables…am I right?
But no. I tried it for the first time in college and it changed my life! My momma is a good cook, but it’s one of the best things she makes.
It’s funny—and a little sad—how easily we opt out of some of the best things in life without ever really trying them. We write them off before we experience them.
Honestly, spiritual disciplines can feel like that too. Prayer. Scripture. Solitude. Worship. Sometimes they sound more like eating your vegetables than experiencing joy.
But every time I lean into those things—even a little—I find something I didn’t expect. Peace that steadies me. Clarity that wasn’t there before. A sense that I’m not alone.
Maybe that’s why we’re invited not just to believe God is good, but to experience it. “Taste and see that the Lord is good,” He says. And somewhere along the way, we discover, what first felt like discipline starts to turn into desire.
And desire… turns into delights.
So, I want to encourage you to seek God’s face today through spiritual disciplines. Because it really is so good!
Disciplines develop your spiritual appetite. Yes. You’ll end up hungry for more.
Please don’t miss out on the most incredible parts of life simply because they are branded to you as “boring” or hard.
No. Taste and see that they lead to the sweetest and most un-boring thing of all.
God’s presence.
A MOMENT TO REFLECT
Loved Louder than Labels
Daily Devotional, Denise PaganoOh my goodness—the noise.
It is loud out there. Not the construction around the corner, not the hum of traffic—but the steady, relentless noise of opinions and expectations. Algorithms nudging you, telling you who you should be. Change this. Fix that. Do more. Try harder.
And somewhere in all that, you start to wonder if you’re enough.
People are posting, sharing, and painting a picture of life that feels just out of reach. It doesn’t matter how old you are—that pressure has a way of stealing your joy.
But here’s what is steady, no matter the noise:
You were chosen. Your value is not up for negotiation.
You don’t have to tweak or polish yourself before God can love you. Nope. You’re chosen. Before you could measure up or fall short, you were already known and deeply loved. God called you His own long before the world started demanding you prove your worth.
No opinion, expectation, or comparison can undo that. His love is steadier than the noise.
Maybe today doesn’t get quieter. Maybe the voices don’t suddenly stop. But there is something underneath it all—steady, unshaken, and true. There is a place where your worth isn’t fragile or up for debate.
Linger there a little longer than usual. Let that settle in because friend, that changes everything.
A MOMENT TO REFLECT