))
If we can hope and if we can love, we can change the world, starting with our own. '60 Seconds of Hope' your daily oasis of positivity and inspiration! Join Horace McMillon each day for a minute reflection designed to equip, empower, and inspire you to be your best self and to help all of us make the world a better place. Kickstart each morning with a dose of hope to uplift your spirits and set a positive tone for the day ahead. Tune in and embrace the power of positivity!
…
continue reading
Send us a text Developing the Capacity to Forgive 60 Second Love Devotion, Day 16 “We must develop and maintain the capacity to forgive. He who is devoid of the power to forgive is devoid of the power to love....” - Martin Luther King, Jr. Excerpted from “366 Days of Love: A Devotional “ #60secondsofhope #366daysoflove #dailydevotion #dailydevotion…
…
continue reading
Send us a text We All Have a Gift. Use it for Good. “To each is given the manifestation of the Spirit for the common good.” - 1 Corinthians 12:7 We all have a gift. We all have something to contribute. We all can be a blessing to someone, somewhere. We don’t all have the same gifts. We were gifted in different ways. So we can stop comparing. Stop c…
…
continue reading
Send us a text “I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word.” - Martin Luther King, Jr. Excerpted from “366 Days of Love: A Devotional “ #60secondsofhope #366daysoflove #dailydevotion #dailydevotional #love #mlk #mlkday #growth #posotivity #inspiration #faith #inspirationalquotes #lovequotes #positivemindset #person…
…
continue reading
Send us a text How Do We Measure Success? “Success is not in what you have, but who you are.” – Bo Bennett Many of us want to be successful. But we’re focused on the wrong stuff. Success isn’t about being popular or famous. It’s not about having pretty clothes and nice things. It’s not about having houses, cars and money. All of these things can be…
…
continue reading
Send us a text Stick with Love 60 Second Love Devotion, Day 14 “I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear.” - Martin Luther King, Jr. Excerpted from “366 Days of Love: A Devotional “ #60secondsofhope #366daysoflove #dailydevotion #dailydevotional #love #mlk #mlkday #selfcare #growth #posotivity #inspiration #faith #inspi…
…
continue reading
Send us a text When the Wine Runs Out “When the wine gave out, the mother of Jesus said to him, "They have no wine." - John 2:3 In the Gospel of John’s very distinctive telling of Jesus’s life, Jesus’s first miracle was to change water into wine. What did the author mean by including this story? Wine at a wedding feast in this story represents joy …
…
continue reading
Send us a text “The only thing that counts is faith expressing itself through love.” From Galatians 5:6 Excerpted from “366 Days of Love: A Devotional “ #60secondsofhope #366daysoflove #dailydevotion #dailydevotional #love #selfcare #growth #inspiration #friends #friendship #inspirationalquotes #faith #lovequotes #meaning #purpose #positivity #posi…
…
continue reading
Send us a text “The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.” – Franklin D. Roosevelt We will face problems that are not easily solved, that require resources we do not yet have. There will be people who let us down, who don’t show up, who disappoint. There will be lessons we need to learn, mistakes we need to overcome…
…
continue reading
Send us a text Embrace the Love of Friends 60 Second Love Devotion, Day 12 “Wine and music gladden the heart, but the love of friends is better than either.” -Sirach 40:20 Excerpted from “366 Days of Love: A Devotional “ #60secondsofhope #366daysoflove #dailydevotion #dailydevotional #love #selfcare #growth #inspiration #inspirationalquotes #lovequ…
…
continue reading
Send us a text From Father to Son: Don’t Stress Too Much. You’re Going To Be Ok. You’re going to knock on many doors. Trust the right ones to open. Your path will take many twists and turns. Try to appreciate the journey, savor the day, and know that something better is just around the bend. You’re going to make mistakes, probably a bunch of them a…
…
continue reading
Send us a text You Are Loved. You Are Enough. “The great struggle of the Christian life is to take God's name for us, to believe we are beloved and to believe that is enough” -Rachel Held Evans I’ve become more and more convinced that most of sin, our toxic, dysfunctional, non loving behavior arises from fear and feelings of inadequacy about oursel…
…
continue reading
Send us a text Love as Unselfishly as We Can 60 Second Love Devotion, Day 10 “Think on these two powerful points: lean on God in every situation and love others as unselfishly as you possibly can.” - Joyce Meyer Excerpted from “366 Days of Love: A Devotional “ #60secondsofhope #366daysoflove #dailydevotion #dailydevotional #love #selfcare #growth #…
…
continue reading
Send us a text Have the Courage to Continue Success is not final, failure is not fatal: It is the courage to continue that counts.” – Winston Churchill Success is a good. We dream of it. We plan for it. We work for it. We celebrate it when we reach. Hopefully we share it with others when we reach it. But success is never permanent. It has to be ear…
…
continue reading
Send us a text Love is Listening 60 Second Love Devotion, Day 10 “The first duty of love is to listen.” - Paul Tillich Excerpted from “366 Days of Love: A Devotional “ #60secondsofhope #366daysoflove #dailydevotion #dailydevotional #love #selfcare #growth #inspiration #inspirationalquotes #lovequotes #meaning #purpose #positivity #positivemindset #…
…
continue reading
Send us a text “What I love about the ministry of Jesus is that he identified the poor as blessed and the rich as needy...and then he went and ministered to them both.” - Rachel Held Evans In most societies, in most of the world, over most of human history the poor have been dismissed, diminished, demonized, and marginalized. At same time the rich …
…
continue reading
Send us a text A Life that Makes a Difference 60 Second Love Devotional, Day 9 Excerpted from “366 Days of Love: A Devotional “ #60secondsofhope #366daysoflove #dailydevotion #dailydevotional #love #selfcare #growth #inspiration #inspirationalquotes #lovequotes #meaning #purpose #positivity #positivemindset #personaldevelopment #personalempowerment…
…
continue reading
Send us a text How to Follow Jesus Jesus never once talked about attending church services, but he talked constantly about healing the sick and feeding the hungry. That is what it seems to mean to be a follower of Jesus. —Richard Rohr I was first licensed into ministry 30 years ago this year. I’ve since been ordained in two traditions. I had the pr…
…
continue reading
Send us a text Love God by Loving People 60 Second Love Devotional, Day 8 Excerpted from “366 Days of Love: A Devotional “ #60secondsofhope #366daysoflove #dailydevotion #dailydevotional #love #selfcare #growth #inspiration #inspirationalquotes #lovequotes Support the showKirjoittanut Horace McMillon
…
continue reading
Send us a text How We Put It Behind Us… “Brothers and sisters, I do not consider myself yet to have taken hold of it. But one thing I do: Forgetting what is behind and straining toward what is ahead…” -Philippians 3:13-14 We have all made mistakes. Nearly all of us have said things we wish we hadn’t. We have done things we’d do differently or not a…
…
continue reading
Send us a text The Earth Is Full of God’s Love 60 Second Love Devotional, Day 7 Excerpted from “366 Days of Love: A Devotional” #60secondsofhope #366daysoflove #dailydevotion #dailydevotional #love #selfcare #growth #inspiration #inspirationalquotes #lovequotes Support the showKirjoittanut Horace McMillon
…
continue reading
Send us a text Live a Life Worth Living “This has been my life; I found it worth living.” – Bertrand Russell I believe the measure of a successful life is being able, like Russell, to look back and say it was worth living. What does that look like? For me I hear the words of a song most famously sung by Mahalia Jackson: If I can help somebody, as I…
…
continue reading
Send us a text There is no fear in love. Today we pray that the lens of fear forever be shattered as we learn to trust in God’s unending love… Excerpted from “366 Days of Love: A Devotional “#60secondsofhope #366daysoflove #inspiration #dailydevotional #dailydevotion #love #positivity #growth #selfcare #personaldevelopment #prayer #positivemindset …
…
continue reading
Send us a text How to Stay Present and Awake Staying awake comes not from willpower but from a wholehearted surrender to the moment—as it is. If we can be present, we will experience what most of us mean by God…” —Richard Rohr Stay present. Stay awake. Stay in the moment. This, to me, appears to be a universal principle that crosses traditions and …
…
continue reading
Send us a text Let Love Show Us What’s Best. 60 Second Love Devotional, Day 5 #60secondsofhope #366daysoflove #dailydevotion #dailydevotional #love #selfcare #growth #inspiration #inspirationalquotes Support the showKirjoittanut Horace McMillon
…
continue reading
Send us a text What Do You Love? Do That! “Just don’t give up trying to do what you really want to do. Where there’s love and inspiration, I don’t think you can go wrong.” – Ella Fitzgerald Where do you fill most fulfilled? Where do you feel the most inspired? What makes you come alive? What are you passionate about? What brings you joy? What do yo…
…
continue reading
Send us a text “God is Love” a 60 Second Love Devotional taken from “366 Days of Love” Support the showKirjoittanut Horace McMillon
…
continue reading
Send us a text Support the showKirjoittanut Horace McMillon
…
continue reading
Send us a text Enjoy Your Life Including Your Work “I know that there is nothing better for them than to be happy and enjoy themselves as long as they live; moreover, it is God's gift that all should eat and drink and take pleasure in all their toil.” -Ecclesiastes 3:12-13 Many years ago, back when I was in school, I worked food service. From time …
…
continue reading
Send us a text Love Is Now in Season For everything there is a season and a time for every matter under heaven: a time to be born and a time to die; a time to plant and a time to pluck up what is planted; a time to kill and a time to heal; a time to break down and a time to build up; a time to weep and a time to laugh; a time to mourn and a time to…
…
continue reading
Send us a text For 2025 I will continue to post Hope Filled minutes of inspiration through “60 Seconds of Hope”. As part of this work to this I will add a second 60 second post in the form of a love themed prayer and devotion drawn from my book “366 Days of Love: A Devotional.“ Support the showKirjoittanut Horace McMillon
…
continue reading
Send us a text 60 Seconds of Hope For 2025… Wishing you all a very happy new year! May you and those you love find possibility and purpose, peace and satisfaction as you journey through the new year. May your days be filled with joy and your lives with love. For 2025 I will continue to post Hope Filled minutes of inspiration through “60 Seconds of …
…
continue reading
Send us a text Do you want to experience more love? Do you want to be more loving? Would you like to help create a more loving world? Join me each day for a 60 Second Prayer and Devotion. #366daysoflove #60secondsofhope #dailyprayer #dailymeditation #dailydevotional #inspiration #love Support the show…
…
continue reading
Send us a text For Whomever Needs to Hear This You are, all of you are gods and goddesses, children of the most High. (Psalm 82:6) You are God’s handcrafted masterpiece, wondrously made with the breath of life flowing through your body, and a heart beating to the rhythms of the universe. You are never alone. You are fully enveloped by the one in wh…
…
continue reading
Send us a text Find Your Climate and Your Soil My mother loves plants and flowers. When I was growing up back in Nebraska, she kept a flower bed full of perennials and a living room full of house plants. One in particular, I remember being in the living room 10-15 years. It was healthy. It always remained the same size in the same pot. When my folk…
…
continue reading
Send us a text Our Years Are Like the Leaves “The years Fall like dry leaves From the top-less tree Of eternity. Does it matter That another leaf has fallen?” -New Year by Langston Hughes How many Pharaohs of Egypt can you name? How many emperors of Rome or ancient China? Most reading or listening to this in the US would be hard pressed to name all…
…
continue reading
Send us a text Where Do We Want to Be More Loving? After reflecting on where we experienced love this past year, and after reflecting on how we have shown love, it’s good for us to reflect on how we would like to be more loving. Where are the times and places, what are the situations, who are the people around which we’d like our life’s response to…
…
continue reading
Send us a text When Did We Show Love? After reflecting on where we experienced love over this past year, it’s good for us to take some time to reflect on the times that we have shown love. One of the universal spiritual principles is that we tend to reap what we sow. The things we put out into the world are the things that tend to come back to us. …
…
continue reading
Send us a text Where Did I Feel Loved? As we come to the end of the year, it’s good for us to take some time to reflect. It’s particularly important for us to to reflect on those times and places where we felt loved and cared for, nurtured and embraced. Who were we with? What were we doing? Were we with close friends sharing a meal or in quiet conv…
…
continue reading
Send us a text Be Like the Shepherds: Follow Nascent Hope into the World As we reflect on the Christmas story found in the second chapter of Luke, we are encouraged to see ourselves in the place of the shepherds. Both boys and girls could find themselves in caretaker roles for animals. Though their status in society was really low, what shepherds d…
…
continue reading
Send us a text You Have to Love It! “Only true love can fuel the hard work that awaits you.” – Tom Preston Who do you love? What do you love? These are the questions each of us needs to answer clearly and explicitly. A big part of knowing who and what we are requires us to know who and what we love. Life is hard. It’s filled with obstacles and chal…
…
continue reading
Send us a text Speak to Yourself with Compassion “Talk to yourself like you would to someone you love. Compassion begins at home—with yourself.” – Brené Brown How many of us say things to and about ourselves that we would never allow in our presence to be said about one of our best friends or loved ones? It’s time for us to stop doing that. It is o…
…
continue reading
Send us a text “And we urge you, beloved, to admonish the idlers, encourage the fainthearted, help the weak, be patient with all of them.”- 1 Thessalonians 5:14 I’ve been reluctant to share this verse because I was concerned some busy body might take it as a permission slip to meddle in someone else’s business. But that’s not what this is. Rather… …
…
continue reading
Send us a text Let Our Lives Be Our Offerings “Sacrifice and offering you did not desire, but a body you prepared for me; with burnt offerings and sin offerings you were not pleased. Then I said, ‘Here I am—it is written about me in the scroll— I have come to do your will, my God.” -(from Hebrews 10 quoting Psalm 40) Our religions and rituals are m…
…
continue reading
Send us a text Be Led Like Joseph: How We Make it Through “Hear us, Shepherd of Israel, you who lead Joseph like a flock.” -from Psalm 80 Psalm 80 is a song of praise that evokes the name of Joseph. For those who don’t know, Joseph went through some serious stuff. His brothers trapped him and sold him into slavery, into slavery in a foreign country…
…
continue reading
Send us a text What Are We Giving Back? “Your talent is God's gift to you. What you do with it is your gift back to God.” - Leo Buscaglia If you are reading or listening to this right now, I want to affirm that God has made you special. You have been given the gifts, talents, and abilities to make the world a better place, to be a blessing to someo…
…
continue reading
Send us a text Show Us How to Reflect Your Light “People living in darkness have seen a great light; on those living in the land of the shadow of death a light has dawned.” -Matthew 4:16 (quoting Isaiah 9:2) Dear God, In the midst of our hopelessness and despair, in the midst of our disappointment and disorientation, we pray that you give us the sp…
…
continue reading
Send us a text It’s Up to Us to Be Among the Few… “The world is held together by the love and passion of a very few people." -James Baldwin ~ It’s not that most of us are cold hearted and cruel. It’s just that we get so caught up in our own day to day life that we seldom make space to think about others beyond our own immediate circle of family and…
…
continue reading
Send us a text Surround Yourself with People Who Bring Out Your Best “The key is to keep company only with people who uplift you, whose presence calls forth your best.” - Epictetus We have to pay attention to who we surround ourselves with. We all have a strong human tendency to become like what we are around. Are the people around us hopeful and o…
…
continue reading
Send us a text What is the Word of God? “Take the helmet of salvation and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God.” - Ephesians 6:17 Many Christians think of the Bible as the word of God, but that’s not quite right. In the Gospel of John chapter one, the logos or word, refers to Jesus. In the gospel, Jesus represents very the presence of …
…
continue reading
Send us a text Submit to One Another: The Biblical Push Towards Radical Equality “Submit to one another out of reverence for Christ.” - Ephesians 5:21 How many sermons and Bible lessons have started with “Wives submit to your husbands…” (Ephesians 5:22) without looking at the verse immediately above it? Most if not all of the writings included in T…
…
continue reading
