Too busy for quiet time this morning? Spirit running on empty before your day even starts? This short daily podcast helps you reconnect with God without rearranging your whole schedule. Join Dr. Bart Leger each weekday morning for a few minutes of Scripture, real-life encouragement, and a simple way to apply God’s truth—right where you are. Perfect for your morning routine, commute, or any moment you can pause and breathe to help you reset your heart and refocus your day, no matter how full your schedule is.
Daily Devotions for Busy Lives
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Too busy for quiet time this morning? Spirit running on empty before your day even starts? This short daily podcast helps you reconnect with God without rearranging your whole schedule. Join Dr. Bart Leger each weekday morning for a few minutes of Scripture, real-life encouragement, and a simple way to apply God’s truth—right where you are. Perfect for your morning routine, commute, or any moment you can pause and breathe to help you reset your heart and refocus your day, no matter how full your schedule is.
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May 28, 2026
Finding God's Presence in Life's Worst Moments
<p>Life has a way of sorting itself into before and after. In this episode, discover what Ruth's story reveals about God's faithfulness in the territory you didn't choose, and why the after isn't as empty as it looks.</p><p>Chris Singleton was 18 years old and finishing his freshman year at Charleston Southern University when he got the call on June 17, 2015. His mother Sharonda Coleman-Singleton had been at a Bible study at Mother Emanuel AME Church in Charleston. A gunman had opened fire. Nine people were dead. His mother was one of them.</p><p>Two days later he stood in front of news cameras outside that church and said 5 words that stopped the country: love is stronger than hate.</p><p>Most of us have a day like that. Before it and after it, life looked different. The world on the other side felt like unfamiliar territory, because it was. You were somewhere you hadn't planned to be.</p><p>Over the years in pastoral ministry I've sat with people whose lives were divided by a moment like that. A phone call or a diagnosis. A conversation that ended something. Some drew closer to God through it. Others pulled away. The ones who drew closer weren't spared the grief. They just found something in the grief that the others hadn't found yet.</p><p>Ruth crossed into unfamiliar territory too. She had lost her husband and left her homeland to follow her mother-in-law Naomi to a country she'd never lived in. Her words to Naomi in Ruth 1:16-17 are some of the most committed in all of Scripture: wherever you go, I will go. Your God will be my God.</p><p>What Ruth found when she arrived was that God's faithfulness had preceded her. The provision was already in place, in a field she'd never walked before, before she knew she would need it. That's the pattern this episode returns to: the after isn't empty. God was already there.</p><p>In the days after his mother's murder, Chris Singleton said the forgiveness he extended came from somewhere outside himself. He said it had to be God, because nothing in his own resources could have produced it on the worst day of his life. He went on to play minor league baseball for the Chicago Cubs, then left baseball entirely to speak and write. His message has never changed: love is stronger than hate. It came to him in the after. God was already in that territory before Chris arrived.</p><p>Through Chris's story and Ruth 1:16-17, this episode makes the case that the day that divides your life is not the end of God's work in it. It may be where that work becomes most visible.</p><p><strong>BY THE TIME YOU FINISH LISTENING, YOU'LL DISCOVER:</strong></p><ul><li>What Ruth's crossing into Moab reveals about God's faithfulness in the territory you didn't plan to enter</li><li>Why some people draw closer to God through a dividing-line moment and others pull away, and what makes the difference</li><li>One question you can bring to God today about the after you're living in</li></ul><br/><p>The after isn't empty. God was there before you arrived.</p><p><strong>Share This Episode:</strong></p><p><u><a href="https://www.dailydevotionsforbusylives.com/248" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.dailydevotionsforbusylives.com/248</a></u></p><p><strong>Need Prayer? Leave me a voicemail:</strong></p><p><u><a href="https://www.dailydevotionsforbusylives.com/voicemail" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.dailydevotionsforbusylives.com/voicemail</a></u></p><p><strong>Want to keep these devotions coming? Please consider supporting this podcast.</strong></p><p><u><a href="https://www.dailydevotionsforbusylives.com/support/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.dailydevotionsforbusylives.com/support/</a></u></p><p><strong>Rate and Review</strong></p><p><u><a href="https://www.dailydevotionsforbusylives.com/reviews/new/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.dailydevotionsforbusylives.com/reviews/new/</a></u></p><p><strong>Connect with Bart</strong></p><p>Facebook Page:<a href="https://www.facebook.com/dailydevotionsforbusylives" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> </a><u><a href="https://www.facebook.com/dailydevotionsforbusylives" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.facebook.com/dailydevotionsforbusylives</a></u></p><p>Website:<a href="https://www.dailydevotionsforbusylives.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> </a><u><a href="https://www.dailydevotionsforbusylives.com" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.dailydevotionsforbusylives.com</a></u></p><p>Feeling spiritually drained? Start here. Download your free copy of my eBook Making Time for Jesus<a href="https://daily-devotions-for-busy-lives.kit.com/b33aa395d1" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> </a><u><a href="https://daily-devotions-for-busy-lives.kit.com/b33aa395d1" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">here</a></u>.</p><p>Mentioned in this episode:</p><p><strong>Join Our Private Facebook Community</strong></p><p>If you're looking for a place to connect with other Daily Devotions listeners and pray for each other, I'd love for you to join our private Facebook community group. Come find us at https://www.dailydevotionsforbusylives.com/group</p>
May 27, 2026
How to Have the Conversation You've Been Avoiding
<p>Most of us have at least one conversation we know we need to have and keep putting off. In this episode, discover what research and Matthew 18:15 both say about what avoidance costs, and what it takes to finally go.</p><p>Researchers at Saint Louis University recruited 1,471 adults across the United States and measured one thing: what happens to people who keep avoiding necessary conversations. The finding was consistent across men and women and across a wide age range. People who consistently avoided conflict showed measurably higher psychological distress than those who addressed it. People who resolved conflict showed significantly lower distress than those who left it unaddressed.</p><p>The researchers' conclusion was something most people already suspected: avoidance doesn't make the situation go away. It makes the person carrying it worse.</p><p>Most of us have at least one conversation on our list right now that we know we need to have and have been putting off. We tell ourselves we're waiting for the right moment. The right moment rarely shows up on its own.</p><p>I'm not someone who runs from a confrontation, but there have been times I've delayed a conversation I knew I needed to have. In every case the situation didn't improve on its own. The thing I was avoiding just sat there and took up space while the relationship drifted further.</p><p>Jesus gives one instruction in Matthew 18:15: go to the person, privately, with the goal of winning them back. One word carries the whole verse: go. The goal matters as much as the action. When restoration is the aim, the conversation looks different than it would if the goal were to be right or to be understood.</p><p>Most of us approach these conversations, when we finally approach them, hoping to be vindicated. Jesus sets a different target. Going in with the relationship as the goal changes both the tone and the outcome.</p><p>Through the Saint Louis University research and Matthew 18:15, this episode makes the case that the discomfort of the necessary conversation is almost always less costly than the damage of avoiding it. The researchers measured it in distress scores. Jesus measured it in relationships worth saving.</p><p>God's already told you the answer. He said go.</p><p><strong>BY THE TIME YOU FINISH LISTENING, YOU'LL DISCOVER:</strong></p><ul><li>What a study of 1,471 adults reveals about the psychological cost of avoiding necessary conversations, and why avoidance makes things worse</li><li>What the single word Jesus uses in Matthew 18:15 tells us about when and how to approach the conversation you've been putting off</li><li>One concrete step you can take today to stop avoiding the conversation and start preparing to have it</li></ul><br/><p>The right moment rarely shows up on its own. You have to make it.</p><p><strong>Share This Episode:</strong></p><p><u><a href="https://www.dailydevotionsforbusylives.com/247" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.dailydevotionsforbusylives.com/247</a></u></p><p><strong>Need Prayer? Leave me a voicemail:</strong></p><p><u><a href="https://www.dailydevotionsforbusylives.com/voicemail" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.dailydevotionsforbusylives.com/voicemail</a></u></p><p><strong>Want to keep these devotions coming? Please consider supporting this podcast.</strong></p><p><u><a href="https://www.dailydevotionsforbusylives.com/support/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.dailydevotionsforbusylives.com/support/</a></u></p><p><strong>Rate and Review</strong></p><p><u><a href="https://www.dailydevotionsforbusylives.com/reviews/new/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.dailydevotionsforbusylives.com/reviews/new/</a></u></p><p><strong>Connect with Bart</strong></p><p>Facebook Page:<a href="https://www.facebook.com/dailydevotionsforbusylives" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> </a><u><a href="https://www.facebook.com/dailydevotionsforbusylives" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.facebook.com/dailydevotionsforbusylives</a></u></p><p>Website:<a href="https://www.dailydevotionsforbusylives.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> </a><u><a href="https://www.dailydevotionsforbusylives.com" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.dailydevotionsforbusylives.com</a></u></p><p>Feeling spiritually drained? Start here. Download your free copy of my eBook Making Time for Jesus<a href="https://daily-devotions-for-busy-lives.kit.com/b33aa395d1" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> </a><u><a href="https://daily-devotions-for-busy-lives.kit.com/b33aa395d1" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">here</a></u>.</p><p>Mentioned in this episode:</p><p><strong>Join Our Private Facebook Community</strong></p><p>If you're looking for a place to connect with other Daily Devotions listeners and pray for each other, I'd love for you to join our private Facebook community group. Come find us at https://www.dailydevotionsforbusylives.com/group</p>
May 26, 2026
What to Do When Everything Feels Overwhelming at Once
<p>Some years pile everything on at once. Aaron and Jennifer Smith called 2024 "whiplash." In this episode, discover what Psalm 55:22 says to the person who is overwhelmed and running out of their own resources.</p><p>Aaron and Jennifer Smith went into 2024 as Christian podcasters and parents of 5 with more momentum than they'd had in years. By December 2023 Aaron's father was sick. Then his brother died.</p><p>The grief bled into January and kept going. Their home church was struggling. Financial investments didn't go as planned. Jennifer found out she was pregnant with their sixth child and needed an emergency C-section midway through. The baby arrived healthy on September 14, but Jennifer spent the months that followed navigating postpartum anxiety and depression.</p><p>Aaron called 2024 "whiplash."</p><p>Most of us know something of that experience, when the pressure doesn't come from one direction. It stacks up from every angle at once and none of it is small enough to ignore and none of it is fully in your control. And feeling like you should be handling it better doesn't help. Nobody handles that gracefully. You just get through it.</p><p>I know what it's like to feel overwhelmed by things piling up. There have been stretches in my own life when the pressure wasn't coming from one direction and I couldn't push through on my own.</p><p>Psalm 55:22 is where David puts his answer. Give your burdens to the Lord, and He will take care of you. The word translated burdens there means your lot, your portion, the weight God has assigned to your life. David is saying give Him the weight and trust that He will sustain you under it. That's a different promise than relief. God is offering something that lasts longer: His presence in what you can't manage alone.</p><p>Jennifer said, looking back on the year, that when you hit the wall of your own capacity, let it be a cue to pray. She was describing the experience of running completely out of your own resources and discovering that God's hadn't run out. Aaron said they came out the other side with one clear conclusion: they couldn't do any of it without Jesus. They stopped pretending they could.</p><p>Through their story and Psalm 55:22, this episode makes the case that overwhelm is a cue, not a verdict. The weight is there. The God who can hold it is also there.</p><p><strong>BY THE TIME YOU FINISH LISTENING, YOU'LL DISCOVER:</strong></p><ul><li>Why the pressure that comes from every direction at once is different from a single loss, and why that difference matters</li><li>What the Hebrew word for "burdens" in Psalm 55:22 reveals about what God is actually promising when He says He'll take care of you</li><li>One concrete practice you can start today to hand the weight to God before it buries you</li></ul><br/><p>When you hit the wall of your own capacity, God's hasn't run out.</p><p><strong>Share This Episode:</strong></p><p><u><a href="https://www.dailydevotionsforbusylives.com/246" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.dailydevotionsforbusylives.com/246</a></u></p><p><strong>Need Prayer? Leave me a voicemail:</strong></p><p><u><a href="https://www.dailydevotionsforbusylives.com/voicemail" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.dailydevotionsforbusylives.com/voicemail</a></u></p><p><strong>Want to keep these devotions coming? Please consider supporting this podcast.</strong></p><p><u><a href="https://www.dailydevotionsforbusylives.com/support/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.dailydevotionsforbusylives.com/support/</a></u></p><p><strong>Rate and Review</strong></p><p><u><a href="https://www.dailydevotionsforbusylives.com/reviews/new/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.dailydevotionsforbusylives.com/reviews/new/</a></u></p><p><strong>Connect with Bart</strong></p><p>Facebook Page:<a href="https://www.facebook.com/dailydevotionsforbusylives" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> </a><u><a href="https://www.facebook.com/dailydevotionsforbusylives" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.facebook.com/dailydevotionsforbusylives</a></u></p><p>Website:<a href="https://www.dailydevotionsforbusylives.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> </a><u><a href="https://www.dailydevotionsforbusylives.com" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.dailydevotionsforbusylives.com</a></u></p><p>Feeling spiritually drained? Start here. Download your free copy of my eBook Making Time for Jesus<a href="https://daily-devotions-for-busy-lives.kit.com/b33aa395d1" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> </a><u><a href="https://daily-devotions-for-busy-lives.kit.com/b33aa395d1" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">here</a></u>.</p><p>Mentioned in this episode:</p><p><strong>Join Our Private Facebook Community</strong></p><p>If you're looking for a place to connect with other Daily Devotions listeners and pray for each other, I'd love for you to join our private Facebook community group. Come find us at https://www.dailydevotionsforbusylives.com/group</p>
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