5 Minutes with Jesus is a daily devotional series for people in the midst of real life, whether facing anxiety, grief, questions of purpose, or simply needing encouragement and connection. Hosted by Sheila Walsh, each five-minute episode offers Biblical truth, honest reflections on faith and emotions, and closes with a moment of prayer.
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| Sheila Walsh: Finding Calm This Year | 5 Minutes with Jesus | January 6, 2026
- When life feels
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- Out of balance and maybe leaning too much in one direction,
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- Spending time with god can bring peace.
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- No matter what's going on around us.
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- So perhaps even today,
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- You could find a few moments to get away from all that's
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- Pressing in on you so that you can be reminded
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- That the same god put the sun to bed and holds
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- The stars in place is holding you to.
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- Do you ever look at your life
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- And feel as if it's kind of a little out of balance?
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- Well, in the year 1172, berta of bernardo died,
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- And she left money in her will for the building of a tower.
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- The following year, workers
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- Laid the first stones
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- In the foundation of the tower that would become known.
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- You might have heard of it.
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- Leaning tower of pisa.
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- The tower was officially completed in 1370,
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- And i don't know if you've seen pictures,
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- But it's been doing its best.
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- Follow work ever since.
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- Over the years, many efforts have
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- Been undertaken to try and
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- Halt the tower's slow and steady tilt toward the earth.
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- Very few of the attempts have helped a toll,
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- And some of the efforts
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- Have actually made the problem much, much worse.
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- They discovered a
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- Better solution, but it's going to cost between,
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- I think, like three and $4.7 million.
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- So why does the tower lean?
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- Well, they say the problem is the soil
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- On which the tower was built.
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- It's a mixture of seashells, clay and shifting sand.
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- It just doesn't offer
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- A solid foundation for a construction project,
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- Because what we build on matters.
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- But cristian was a little boy.
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- I could read him like a book if he'd had a great day at school.
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- He'd be higher than a kite.
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- And if he'd had a bad day, everything about his body
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- Language spoke of doom and gloom.
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- The best way to get him to open up
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- Was to go for a walk together.
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- As we walked side by side in the fresh air,
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- He would slowly unburden himself.
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- There's just something about taking a walk
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- With god that helps me unburden, too.
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- Especially when i pay attention
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- To the wonders of his creation all around me.
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- Whenever i think about the way god speaks to us through
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- Creation, i'm reminded of jobe.
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- You know, most of us
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- Remember that jobe went through devastating trials.
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- But do you remember how god put job's heart at rest?
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- For four breathtaking chapters.
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- God walk jobe to the wonders of his creation.
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- From the vast storehouses
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- Of snow to every creature that's ever roamed the earth.
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- He reminded jobe that only he, the creator
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- And sustainer of life, performs mighty acts
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- Like making lightning strike, giving the horse its strength
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- And commanding the dawn to rise every morning.
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- After god showed off the wonders of what he had
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- Made and the power he had over them,
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- Jobe found his faith strengthened and renewed,
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- And he made this powerful declaration.
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- I know you can do all things.
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- My ears had heard of you.
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- But now my eyes have seen you.
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- That encounter changed everything for jobe.
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- It's one thing to know things about god.
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- It's quite another to know him.
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- In the midst of his pain.
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- Jobe with reminded of the greatness and majesty of god
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- Right there in the world around him.
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- But he never would have signed up for such loss and suffering.
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- But that fresh, profound understanding
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- Of the heart of his father brought peace.
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- It's become a daily habit of mine
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- To take a walk with god every single morning.
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- There's so much craziness in this world
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- That robs us of the peace that christ promises.
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- The christ never said that our lives would be easy,
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- But he did promise us his peace.
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- When life feels out of balance and maybe leaning too much
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- In one direction, spending time with god can bring peace.
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- No matter what's going on around us.
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- So perhaps even today,
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- You could find a few moments to get away from all that's
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- Pressing in on you so that you can be reminded
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- That the same god put the sun to bed and holds
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- The stars in place is holding you to.
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- Perhaps you could take a walk with god.
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- Let's pray.
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- Father, i
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- Want to thank you that you're here for us.
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- And lord, i pray right now for anyone who is struggling,
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- Who feels as if life's not going the way they thought it would.
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- Who wonders, lord, if you're even watching over them?
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- Holy spirit,
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- Will you let them know in the way
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- That only you can, that you see them,
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- That you love them, and that you are with them,
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- And that we have the privilege to take a walk
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- With god our father in jesus name.
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- Amen.
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- Und.
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