When our minds drift into desiring things of the world, we can rely on wisdom found in Scripture, quotes, and faith/spiritually-based teachings. To ensure we don’t drift into desiring more than what we already have. We will meditate on these verses to ensure we remain as humble as possible. Never taking more and not forgetting what we have. Use these verses as a reminder to ground yourself in the present moment.
November 10th 2025
Ecclesiastes 5:10
“The one who loves money is never satisfied with money, and whoever loves wealth is never satisfied with income”
November 11th 2025
Luke 16:9
“And I tell you, make friends for yourselves by the means of the unrighteousness money so that when it fails, they may welcome you into eternal dwellings.”
November 15th 2025
I CHING #13 T’ung Jen (Companions)
Line One Bottom Line: The beginning of union among different people should occur where everyone can see and be seen and are on an equal footing
November 18th 2025
Matthew 7:11-22
“If you then, who are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father in heaven give good things to those who ask Him! Therefore, whatever you want others to do for you, do also the same for them- this is the Law and the Prophets”
November 30th 2025
Ecclesiastes 5:8
“If you see oppression of the poor and perversion of justice and righteousness in the province, don’t be astonished at the situation, because one official protects another official, and higher officials protect them.”
December 1st 2025
Luke 6:31-36
Just as you want others to do for you, do for them. If you love those who love you, what credit is that to you? Even sinners love those who love them. If you do what is good to those who are good to you, what credit is that to you? Even sinners do that. And if you lend to those from whom you expect to receive, what credit is that to you? Even sinners lend to sinners to be repaid in full. But love your enemies, do what is good, and lend, expecting nothing in return. Then your reward will be great, and you will be sons of the Most High. For He is gracious to the ungrateful and evil. Be merciful, just as your Father also is merciful.”
Proverbs 19:17
Kindness to the poor is a loan to the LORD.
December 18th 2025
Matthew 19:11
“Not everyone can accept this saying, but only those it has been given to. For there are eunuchs who were born that way from their mother’s womb, there are eunuchs who were made by men, and there are eunuchs who have made themselves that way because of the kingdom of heaven. Let anyone accept this who can.”
December 29th 2025
Galatians 3:28
“There is no Jew or Greek, slave or free, male or female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus.”
John 13:34
“I give you a new commandment: love one another. Just as I have loved you, you must also love one another. By this all people will know that you are My disciples, if you have love for one another.”
Luke 18:1
“He then told them a parable on the need for them to pray always and not become discouraged.”
James 4:16
“Therefore, confess your sins to one another and pray for one another, so that you may be healed. The intense prayer of the righteous is very powerful.”
I CHING #60 Chieh: Restraint
Restraint brings success and progress. But restrictions that are severe and difficult should not be perpetuated.
Even in the midst of danger we experience pleasure and satisfaction in following the proper course. It is by the restraint exercised between terrestrial and celestial forces that the four seasons arrive each at its appointed time; so, when due restraint is show in the duties of government, the state suffers no injury, and the people no hurt.
Commentary Line 5: Do not ask others to wear a yoke you would be unwilling to carry on your own shoulders. Impose no rules that you yourself cannot live by. This is especially true if you are in a position of leadership. If you impose limits on others that fit the circumstances and do not overly limit their freedom, great success is possible.
December 30th 2025
1 John 2:27
“The anointing you received from Him remains in you, and you don’t need anyone to teach you. Instead, His anointing teaches you about all things, and is true and is not a lie; just as it has taught you, remain in Him.”
1 John 4:8
“The one who does not love does not know God, because God is love.”
1 John 4:16
“And we have come to know and to believe the love that God has for us. God is love, and the one who remains in love remains in God, and God remains in him.”
1 John 4:20
“If anyone says “I love God,” yet hates his brother, he is a liar. For the person who does not love his brother whom he has seen cannot love God whom he has not seen. And we have this command from Him; the one who loves God must also love his brother.”
1 Peter 4:12-14, 19
“Dear friends, when the fiery ordeal arises among you to test you, don’t be surprised by it, as if something unusual were happening to you. Instead, as you share in the sufferings of the Messiah rejoice, so that you may also rejoice with great joy at the revelation of His glory. If you are ridiculed for the name of Christ, you are blessed, because the Spirit of glory and of God rests on you”
“So those who suffer according to God’s will should, in doing good, entrust themselves to a faithful Creator”
December 31st 2025
Thomas A Kempis
“Be not angry that you cannot make others as you wish them to be, since you cannot make yourself as you wish to be.”
January 5th 2025
Daniel 12:1
“There will be a time of distress such as never has occurred since nations came into being until that time. But at that time all your people who are found written in the book will escape.”
Luke 17:20
“The kingdom of God is not coming with something observable; no one will say, ‘Look here!’ or ‘There!’ “
Matthew 5:20
“For I tell you, unless your righteousness surpasses that of the scribes and Pharisees, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven.”
Matthew 19:26
“With men this is impossible, but with God all things are possible”
James 2:12
“Speak and act as those who will be judged by the law of freedom. For judgment is without mercy to the one who hasn’t shown mercy. Mercy triumphs over judgment.”
January 6th 2025
Numbers 12:6-8
“If there is a prophet among you from the LORD, I make myself known to him in a vision; I speak with him in a dream. Not so with my servant Moses; he is faithful in all My household. I speak with him directly, openly, and not in riddles; he sees the form of the LORD”
Ecclesiastes 5:3,7
“For dreams result from much work and a fool’s voice from many words.”
“For many dreams bring futility, also many words.”
Ecclesiastes 7:9
“Only see this: I have discovered that God made people upright, but they pursued many schemes.”
Isaiah 66:2
“I will look favorably on this kind of person: one who is humble, submissive in spirit, and who trembles at My word”
Jeremiah 29:8
“Don’t let your prophets who are among you and your diviners deceive you, and don’t listen to the dreams you elicit from them, for they are prophesying falsely to you.”
Jude 1:8, 10, 16, 22
“Nevertheless, these dreamers likewise defile their flesh, despise authority and blaspheme glorious beings.”
“But these people blaspheme anything they don’t understand.”
“Their mouths utter arrogant words, flattering people for their own advantage.”
“Have mercy on some who doubt; save others by snatching them from the fire, on others have mercy in fear.”
January 14th 2026
1 John 1:8
“If we say “We have no sin,” we are deceiving ourselves, and the truth is not in us.”
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January 15th 2026
Matthew 23:12
“Whoever exalts himself will be humbled and whoever humbles himself will be exalted.”
January 16th 2026
1 John 4:18
“There is no fear in love; instead, perfect love drives out fear, because fear involves punishment. So the one who fears has not reached perfection in love. We love because He first loved us.”
Proverbs 31:4
“It is not for kings, Lemuel, it is not for kings to drink wine or for rulers to desire beer. Otherwise, they will drink, forget what is decreed, and pervert justice for all the oppressed.”
iChing #42
The joy of the people is boundless, because when those placed above behave virtuously and without pride towards those below them, their ways are brilliantly illuminated.
Self-absorbed individuals, whose entire purpose is personal accumulation of wealth or power, soon become prisoners to their own desires.
If you have an instinctive desire to help others at a time like this, heed it. Don’t be afraid to follow your heart when it desires to do good.
A kind heart does not make demands or ask for recognition. Genuine kindness and consideration flow naturally and spontaneously.
Becoming greedy or power hungry causes one to lose touch, because a broad vision is needed to observe the big picture—including what is coming up. The easiest way to lose good fortune is to take it for granted or to abuse the privilege.
James 3:16
‘For where envy and selfish ambition exist, there is disorder and every kind of evil”
January 18th 2026
Isaiah 28:7
“These also stagger because of wine and stumble under the influence of beer: priest and prophet stagger because of beer, they are confused by wine. They stumble because of beer, they are muddled in their visions, they stumble in their judgments.”
Isaiah 40:13-15
Who has directed the Spirit of the LORD, or who gave Him counsel? Who did He consult with? Who gave Him understanding and taught Him the paths of justice? Who taught Him knowledge and showed Him the way of understanding? Look, the nations are like a drop in a bucket; they are considered as a speck of dust on the scales.
Isaiah 40:17
All the nations are as nothing before Him; they are considered by Him as nothingness and emptiness.
January 23rd 2026
James 3:4-8
And consider ships: though very large and driven by fierce winds, they are guided by a very small rudder wherever the will of the pilot directs. So too, though the tongue is a small part of the body, it boasts great things. Consider how large a forest a small fire ignites. And the tongue is a fire. The tongue, a world of unrighteousness, is placed among the part of our bodies; it pollutes the whole body, sets the course of life on fire, and is set on fire by hell.
For every creature- animal, or bird, reptile, or fish- is tamed and has been tamed by man, but no man can tame the tongue. It is a restless evil, full of deadly poison. With it, we curse men who are made in God’s likeness. Out of the same mouth come blessing and cursing.
January 30th 2026
Proverbs 27:20
“Sheol and Abaddon are never satisfied and people’s eyes are never satisfied.”
Deuteronomy 8:17
“You may say to yourself, “My power and my own ability have gained this wealth for me, but remember that the LORD your God gives you the power to gain wealth, in order to confirm His covenant He swore to your fathers as it is today.”
Deuteronomy 9:4-6
“When the LORD your God drives them out before you, do not say to yourself, “The LORD brought me in to take possession of this land because of my righteousness.” Instead, the LORD will drive out these nations before you because of their wickedness. You are not going to take possession of their land because of your righteousness or your integrity… (6) for you are a stiff-necked people”
Ecclesiastes 5:10
“The one who loves money is never satisfied with money, and whoever loves wealth is never satisfied with income.”
February 1st 2026
Pslam 27:10
“Even if my father and mother abandon me, the LORD cares for me.”
February 6th 2026
1 Corinthians 15:50
“Brothers, I tell you this: flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God, and corruption cannot inherit incorruption”
February 7th 2026
Luke 16:8
The master praised the unrighteous manager because he had acted astutely. For the sons of this age are more astute than the sons of light in dealing with their own people.
Luke 10:10
“Whoever is faithful in very little is also faithful in much, and whoever is unrighteous in very little is also unrighteous in much. So if you have not been faithful with the unrighteous money, who will trust you with what is genuine? And if you have not been faithful with what belongs to someone else, who will give you what is your own? No household slave can be the slave of two masters, since either he will hate one and love the other, or he will be devoted to one and despise the other. You can’t be slaves to both God and money.”
Luke 18:2
There was a judge in one town who didn’t fear God or respect man. And a widow in that town kept coming to him, saying, ‘Give me justice against my adversary.”
For a while, he was unwilling, but later he said to himself, ‘Even though I don’t fear God or respect man, yet because this widow kept pestering me, I will give her justice, so she doesn’t wear me out by her persistent coming.”
Listen to what the unjust judge says. Will not God grant justice to His elect who cry out to Him day and night? Will He delay to help them?
Februay 9th 2026
Romans 12:9
Love must be without hypocrisy. Detest evil; cling to what is good. Show family affection to one another with brotherly love.
Romans 12:14-18
“Bless those who persecute you; bless and do not curse. Rejoice with those who rejoice; weep with those who weep. Be in agreement with one another. Do not be proud; instead, associate with the humble. Do not be wise in your own estimation. Do not repay evil for evil. Try to do what is honorable in everyone’s eyes. If possible, on your part, live at peace with everyone.”
Romans 12:21
Do not be conquered by evil, but conquere evil with good.
Romans 15:1-2
“Now we who are strong have an obligation to bear the weaknesses of those without strength, and not to please ourselves. Each one of us must please his neighbor for his good, in order to build him up.”
April 21st 2026
2 Samuel 7:6
“From the time I brought the Israelites out of Egypt until today I have not lived in a house; instead, I have been moving around with the tabernacle tent. In all My journeys with the Israelites, have I ever asked anyone among the tribes of Israel, whom I commanded to shepherd My people Israel; Why haven’t you built Me a house of cedar?”
Matthew 17:20
“For I assure you: If you have faith the size of a mustard seed, you will tell this mountain, ‘Move from here to there.’ and it will move”
May 29th 2026
Matthew 21:31
“I assure you: Tax collectors and prostitutes are entering the kingdom of God before you! For John came to you in the way of righteousness, and you didn’t believe him. Tax collectors and prostitutes did believe him, but you, when you saw it, didn’t even change your mind then and believe him”
Zechariah 12:7
“The LORD will save the tents of Judah first, so that the glory of David’s house and the glory of Jerusalem’s residents may not be greater than that of Judah”
Micah 5:2
“Bethlehem, Ephrathah you are small among the clans of Judah; One will come from you to be ruler over Israel for Me. His origin is from antiquity, from eternity”
Genesis 17:20
“As for Ishmael, I have heard you. I will certainly bless him; I will make him fruitful and will multiply him greatly. He will father 12 tribal leaders, and I will make him into a great nation.”
Jeremiah 10:2-3
Do not learn the way of the nations or be terrified by signs in the heavens although the nations are terrified by them, for the customs of the peoples are worthless.
Isaiah 54:3
For you will spread out to the right and to the left, and your descendants will dispossess nations and inhabit the desolate cities.