June 28, 2026 | Moments Almanac | Carry
Share Your Thoughts What does faithfulness look like? Sometimes it looks like carrying a bucket. Sometimes it looks like carrying a Bible. In this June 28 episode of Moments Almanac, we remember two ordinary people separated by sixteen centuries who simply picked up what the moment required. Irenaeus of Lyon defended the truth of the Gospel when false teachers threatened to reshape it, becoming the earliest Christian writer to clearly affirm Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John as the four authorita...
What does faithfulness look like?
Sometimes it looks like carrying a bucket.
Sometimes it looks like carrying a Bible.
In this June 28 episode of Moments Almanac, we remember two ordinary people separated by sixteen centuries who simply picked up what the moment required.
Irenaeus of Lyon defended the truth of the Gospel when false teachers threatened to reshape it, becoming the earliest Christian writer to clearly affirm Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John as the four authoritative Gospels.
Mary Ludwig Hays walked the blistering battlefield at Monmouth, carrying water to exhausted soldiers before stepping to her husband's cannon when he fell.
One carried the Word.
One carried water.
Both remind us that God rarely asks us to be famous. More often, He asks us to be faithful.
Join us as we reflect on Jesus' promise of Living Water and consider a simple question that echoes into every ordinary day:
What does this moment need—and will I carry it?
Hello and welcome to this first edition of Scattered Moments Almanac. Today is May the 28th, and on this day in 1738, a weary Anglican priest named John Wesley attended a small gathering on Aldersgate Street in London. He was discouraged, spiritually exhausted. He had preached sermons, traveled across the Atlantic as a missionary, and pursued holiness with relentless discipline, yet inwardly he felt uncertain and empty. And that evening someone began reading from Martin Luther's preface to the book of Romans, and Wesley later wrote these famous words. I felt my heart strangely warmed. I felt I did trust in Christ, Christ alone for salvation. It was not the beginning of his faith, but it was the moment grace moved from his head into his heart. From that quiet meeting would come a revival that swept through England and America, field preaching, hymns sung in the open air, care for the poor, prison ministry, and a renewed call to holy living. Sometimes history turns not on battles, but on a warmed heart in a small room. Luke twenty four thirty two is our scripture for today. Did not our hearts burn within us while he talked with us on the road and opened the scriptures to us. Here's a word from Wesley. Though I am always in haste, I am never in a hurry. The soul was not designed to live breathlessly. Wesley rode thousands of miles on horseback, preached thousands of sermons, and changed nations. Yet he still understood the difference between urgency and panic. One comes from calling and the other from fear. Here's a poem from William Cooper you may recognize. God moves in mysterious ways his wonders to perform. He plants his footsteps in the sea and rides upon the storm. Perhaps today feels stormy for you. Perhaps God seems hidden. But hidden doesn't mean absence. Lord Jesus, warm our hearts again, not merely with emotion, but with a deep assurance that you are near. Slow our hurried souls, teach us to live faithfully in ordinary days, and when we cannot trace your hand, help us to trust your heart. Carry peace into the anxious places within us, and let grace rise quietly again like morning light.
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SPEAKER_00That's the Scattered Moments almanac entry for May twenty eighth. I hope you'll join me tomorrow morning. Until then, take care. Notice the scattered moments and share the grace.
