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This website is meant to be your source for a daily scripture to read and contemplate. Regardless of religion there is something we can all gain by reading scripture daily. Let us rejoice in the universe! Below are the most recent posts to start your journey.

Your Daily Digital Buddhist Devotion for 05/18/2019

Depressed, Māra laments to his three daughters of his failure to distract the Buddha. So they take on the task themselves, and assume a variety of sensuous forms to tempt him. But they fail too, and Māra castigates them for being so presumptuousAnd then Māra the Wicked, after reciting these verses of disillusionment in the Buddha’s presence, left that place. He sat cross-legged on the ground not far from the Buddha, silent, embarrassed, shoulders drooping, downcast, depressed, with nothing to say, scratching the ground with a stick. [Read More]

Your Daily Digital Christian Devotion for 05/18/2019

And the famine {was} sore in the land…. And the famine {was} sore in the landAnd it came to pass, when they had eaten up the corn which they had brought out of Egypt, their father said unto them, Go again, buy us a little food. And Judah spake unto him, saying, The man did solemnly protest unto us, saying, Ye shall not see my face, except your brother {be} with you. [Read More]

Your Daily Digital Buddhist Devotion for 05/17/2019

Māra has tried to distract the Buddha for seven years without success. He laments his failure with the similes of a crab whose limbs are smashed by a group of children, and a crow who tried to eat a stone.So I have heard. At one time the Buddha was staying near Uruvelā at the goatherd’s banyan tree on the bank of the Nerañjarā River. Now at that time Māra the Wicked had been following the Buddha for seven years hoping to find a vulnerability without success. [Read More]

Your Daily Digital Christian Devotion for 05/17/2019

I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of… I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, {which is} your reasonable serviceAnd be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what {is} that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God. For I say, through the grace given unto me, to every man that is among you, not to think {of himself} more highly than he ought to think; but to think soberly, according as God hath dealt to every man the measure of faith. [Read More]

Your Daily Digital Buddhist Devotion for 05/16/2019

Venerable Godhika finds himself repeatedly falling away from his meditation attainments due to severe illness. Eventually he considers suicide, and Māra tries to get the Buddha to deter him. But the Buddha says Godhika has already attained awakening and has died blamelessly.So I have heard. At one time the Buddha was staying near Rājagaha, in the Bamboo Grove, the squirrels’ feeding ground. Now at that time Venerable Godhika was staying on the slopes of Isigili at the Black Rock. [Read More]

Your Daily Digital Christian Devotion for 05/16/2019

Then answered Bildad the Shuhite, and said,… Then answered Bildad the Shuhite, and said, How long wilt thou speak these {things}? and {how long shall} the words of thy mouth {be like} a strong wind? Doth God pervert judgment? or doth the Almighty pervert justice? If thy children have sinned against him, and he have cast them away for their transgression; {for..: Heb. in the hand of their transgression} If thou wouldest seek unto God betimes, and make thy supplication to the Almighty; If thou {wert} pure and upright; surely now he would awake for thee, and make the habitation of thy righteousness prosperous. [Read More]

Your Daily Digital Buddhist Devotion for 05/15/2019

Māra repeatedly pesters the monk Samiddhi when he is on retreat. The Buddha encourages him, until eventually Samiddhi is able to recognize Māra for himself.At one time the Buddha was staying in the land of the Sakyans near Silāvatī. Now at that time Venerable Samiddhi was meditating not far from the Buddha, diligent, keen, and resolute. Then as Venerable Samiddhi was in private retreat this thought came to his mind, “I’m so fortunate, so very fortunate, to have a teacher who is a perfected one, a fully awakened Buddha! [Read More]

Your Daily Digital Christian Devotion for 05/15/2019

And he began to speak unto them by parables. A {certain}… And he began to speak unto them by parablesA {certain} man planted a vineyard, and set an hedge about {it}, and digged {a place for} the winefat, and built a tower, and let it out to husbandmen, and went into a far country. And at the season he sent to the husbandmen a servant, that he might receive from the husbandmen of the fruit of the vineyard. [Read More]

Your Daily Digital Buddhist Devotion for 05/14/2019

Māra approaches some young mendicants as an old brahmin, and tries to tempt them with talk of the pleasures of youth.So I have heard. At one time the Buddha was staying in the land of the Sakyans near Silāvatī. Now at that time several mendicants were meditating not far from the Buddha, diligent, keen, and resolute. Then Māra the Wicked manifested in the form of a brahmin with a large matted dreadlock, wearing an antelope hide. [Read More]

Your Daily Digital Christian Devotion for 05/14/2019

Now when Jacob saw that there was corn in Egypt, Jacob… Now when Jacob saw that there was corn in Egypt, Jacob said unto his sons, Why do ye look one upon another? And he said, Behold, I have heard that there is corn in Egypt: get you down thither, and buy for us from thence; that we may live, and not dieAnd Joseph's ten brethren went down to buy corn in Egypt. [Read More]