Seven mornings. Five minutes each. Take it with you.

A short devotional for the week you're gone — one reading for each morning of the trip, before the day starts making demands.

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Seven readings, one for each morning you're away

Each one ends with a question worth sitting with, one small thing to actually do, and a prompt for the kids if you're traveling with them. There's room to write. It isn't a curriculum and you won't fall behind — if your trip is four days, read four.

1The day you leavePsalm 121:8
2The first morningLamentations 3:22–23
3Getting your money's worth1 Timothy 6:17–18
4The ones you look pastMatthew 20:26
5More than enoughProverbs 11:24–25
6LookingPsalm 19:1
7Carrying it homeLuke 2:19

Here's one of the seven.

Day two, for the morning you wake up somewhere unfamiliar and can't place the ceiling. Five minutes, a question, and one small thing to do before the day gets going.

Read it out loud if you're traveling with someone. It's a different thing entirely, and the conversation afterward is usually the point.

Seven Mornings Away

Day two

The first morning

"His mercies never come to an end; they are new every morning." LAMENTATIONS 3:22–23

You wake up and, for about four seconds, don't know where you are. Then the room resolves — the unfamiliar ceiling, the different quality of light, a sound that isn't your neighborhood's sound — and you remember. That disorientation is one of the few genuinely free gifts of travel, and it lasts about a day before your brain files the new place under "normal" and stops looking at it.

Today, do this

Before you touch your phone, five minutes at a window. Nothing else. Just look.

Six more mornings in the booklet.

Take it on a trip I had nothing to do with

I'm Grant Haynes. I've been a support-raising missionary for nearly three decades — in Oaxaca, Mexico and Clarkston, Georgia — and I still am. My work exists because other people have been generous with me for a very long time.

So this is a gift, not a sample. Use it on a trip you booked yourself, months ago, through somebody else. That's genuinely a good outcome, and it's the point.

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