Thank you for reading my Daily Letters to God. I have been offering these devotions since 2015.

I am excited to share that these letters will be moving on June 1, 2025 to a new home:

The Higher Journal: Devotions from a Mountain of Grace

I am excited about all the new and deeper material we will be able to offer — quotations, questions to consider, more PDF devotional downloads, and audio offerings. Watch as these things are added.

If you are subscribed to these letters, I will add you as a subscriber to The Higher Journal, which has a free and a paid subscription. You will be signed up for a 30-day free paid subscription.

Paid subscribers get:

• Daily devotionals every morning at 6:30 am, along with reflective questions to consider, and thought-provoking quotes from literature, philosophy, and Scripture
• Each Sunday, a “Letter from the Mountain” which contains deeper reflections and offers an explicit reflective and spiritual theme
• Exclusive thematic downloads such as Rain Before Morning, a 30 day special devotion series.

I hope you will decide it is worth it, but if you do not, you can go to a free subscription or unsubscribe entirely. The free subscription offers occasional letters and won’t overload your inbox.

Starting June 1, your letters will come from The Higher Journal.

Thank you for walking this path with me.

-B.R.

It takes a glance, and you are with me.

Looking down at my feet as I walk, stony road, difficult climb, I look up and around and catch my breath.

There you are: in that shadow. There you are: behind that tree.

Now may I walk on, with sturdy back and light step.

It took but that glance.

(Letter #4085)

Standing along the cliff, wind upsweeping from the valley.

Where was green and verdant, now calamity below. Up here, it little touches us.

Can I pour down my joy upon those below? Will they accept it?

Shall I wait for them to climb here, by ones and twos?

Let me be a willing oasis, Lord.

(Letter #4084)

The small of raw earth, fresh in the morning as I walk the field.

Soon, dwellings will appear where once was corn.

Someone like me may later look out over the valley and thank you, Lord, for unlooked-for providence.

Why grumble, when you turn even scars to joy?

Grant me acceptance, Lord.

(Letter #4083)

I sit with you, Lord, and you with me, but do I draw near to you? Do I lean in your direction?

Or do I wait for you to come to me?

Is it enough, to open my door to you? Or shall I go seeking?

Grant me active grace today, Lord.

(Letter #4082)

Strong roots, let me have strong roots. What the world sees is fleeting, let my roots hold the story.

I was blown about, a paper cup in the road, and you fixed me to one spot. It all grew from there.

Strong roots, let me have strong, growing roots.

(Letter #4081)

A knife in a drawer, worn handle. Unremarkable.

Yet has it been oiled and honed to a sharp edge. So keen as to surprise and delight the one using it.

Am I the knife? Are the dull days the drawer that hides it?

Use me, Lord, for my purpose. I have been practicing, honing my edge.

(Letter #4080)

A second chance. And another.

Each dawn, this dawn: time to try again.

So much lost yesterday in idle time, so much has slipped away in the night, so much now on offer to be reclaimed. Quickened breath, quickened heart.

Again, Lord: let me walk forth again.

(Letter #4079)

Overflow. Unlimited supply to help.

The sun that shines down, does more for them diminish what I receive myself?

Why, then, do I hoard?

Let me give all away, and give again.

(Letter #4078)

If I am seeking to do your will, Lord, how could I fail? The destination is in your hands; my steps and effort are all I need offer.

Is this footfall better than that? Each step is a cherished duty and brooks no evaluation. One after the other, a simple cascade of dominoes.

My worry over shortcomings is due to my belief that a result is in my power.

Let me simply do your will today, Lord.

(Letter #4077)