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366 daily readings from A Day in the Life, with a reflection, prayer, and one practical choice. Free to read and share.
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FAITH FOR ORDINARY DAYSOne better choice.
One better choice.
One day at a time.
I write about faith, recovery, and the lessons I’m learning in everyday life. My hope is that something here helps you feel less alone and find one better choice you can make today.
BEGIN WHERE YOU ARE.
A MOMENT FOR TODAY
Read today’s devotional A quiet moment for your day.
THE BOOK THAT CAME FIRSTOne Better Choice
One Better Choice
at a Time
Small Habits. Stronger Character.
Hope for Starting Again.
Before the daily devotional, I wrote my first book about starting again and becoming more trustworthy in the roles that matter. It brings together my experiences, faith, and hard-earned lessons about habits, relationships, and character.
From learning to listen before speaking to keeping the promise at the heart of “The Promise,” these are lessons I’m still learning to practise. The book is written, and I’m preparing it for publication while I wait for its ISBN.
“You are not finished. As long as you can make one better choice, you are not finished.”Read a short excerpt
THE PERSON BEHIND THE WORDSReal life.
Real life.
Honest reflection.
A little hope.
I’ve made mistakes. I’ve had to ask for forgiveness, accept help, and learn to take responsibility for what I do next. Faith, recovery, and honest conversations have helped me keep going.
Over several years, I brought together experiences, journal entries, prayers, and lessons from conversations that stayed with me. Those are the roots of One Better Choice at a Time.
Read my storySOMETHING TO CARRY INTO YOUR DAY
Explore the books Read. Reflect. Put it into practice.
Room for your own words.
A personal journal and guided workbook questions give you space to be honest about what you’re learning.
Open the workbook journal →A reading for this moment.
Explore forgiveness, surrender, grief, gratitude, and hope. Find a few words to return to when you need them.
Find a reading →FROM THE REFLECTIONS
FORGIVENESS · FAITH · EVERYDAY CHOICESForgiveness can begin
Forgiveness can begin
with the truth.
What if forgiveness didn’t ask us to deny what happened? Begin with an honest reflection on hurt, boundaries, and what we carry into tomorrow.
Read the reflectionONE PERSON. ONE DAY. ONE BETTER CHOICE.You don’t have to have it all figured out
Begin with today’s devotional
You don’t have to have it all figured out
to take a small step today.
Begin with today’s devotional THE WORDS. THE REFLECTION. THE PRACTICE.The books behind
The books behind
one better choice.
Experiences, journal entries, prayers, and conversations became something to carry into an ordinary day.
MY FIRST BOOK
One Better Choice at a Time
Small Habits. Stronger Character. Hope for Starting Again.
Publication planned · ISBN pendingA personal and practical book about habits, faith, responsibility, relationships, and beginning again. These are lessons from my own life, put into words to help someone else take their next small step.
Read a short excerpt →ONE BETTER CHOICE AT A TIMEA Day
A Day
in the Life
A daily faith devotional
JOHN LAPIERRETHE FREE DAILY DEVOTIONALA few quiet minutes.
A few quiet minutes.
One practical choice.
A Day in the Life brings together 366 readings in the Berean Standard Bible edition. Each day includes Scripture, an honest reflection, a question, a commitment, and a prayer.
Read in the app, search for what’s on your heart, or open the original devotional PDF.
THE COMPANION WORKBOOKMake room for
Make room for
your own answers.
The guided workbook offers daily questions, weekly reflections, monthly intentions and reviews, and a year-end reflection. Take your time. One honest answer is a beginning.
The app also has a personal journal for your thoughts and prayers. Your writing stays in your browser on your device; keep a backup of the words you want to save.
One Better Choice at a Time.
My book, devotional, and workbook grow from the same purpose: to turn the things I’ve lived and learned into encouragement and practical help for someone else. The daily devotional and companion workbook are available here freely.
More about the work and why I share it →One Better Choice
at a Time
Small Habits. Stronger Character.
Hope for Starting Again.
This book grew from the things I’ve lived, the lessons I’ve learned, and the kind of man I’m still trying to become. It is about turning what we know into what we practise, one choice at a time.
Why I am writing this.
I am not writing this book to preach at you, talk down to you, or pretend that my way is the only way. I have a strong personality, strong beliefs, and more than a few hard-earned opinions, but I am still learning. I have also been wrong enough times to know that confidence and wisdom are not always the same thing. What I offer in these pages is my experience — what helped me, what hurt me, what I learned too late, and what I am still trying to practise. Take what is useful, think honestly about the rest, and make it your own. I am not standing above you with all the answers. I am standing beside you with a few tools that helped me rebuild.
One small beginning.
The full book is being prepared for publication. In the meantime, the daily devotional and companion workbook are free to explore here.
Open the free devotional →Return to the homepage →FAITH. REAL LIFE. THE NEXT SMALL STEP.A little room
A little room
for reflection.
Begin with a reading. Sit with an honest question. Take one thought into your own day.
Forgiveness Without Denial
Forgiveness can begin with the truth about what happened and how it hurt. Boundaries, wisdom, and consequences can still have a place.
Read the reflection →Forgiveness Is Not Trust
Trust grows through time, consistency, honesty, and changed behaviour. A reflection on pursuing forgiveness while allowing trust to be rebuilt through evidence.
Keep reading →A READING FOR THIS MOMENT
What’s on your heart?
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WORDS TO RETURN TO
Your saved readings.
A little collection of what speaks to you.
A SPACE TO BE HONEST
Your journal.
A thought, a prayer, a small step. Begin with what’s here.
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REFLECT. PRACTISE. GROW.
Your workbook journal.
Guided questions from John’s companion workbook. Take your time—one honest answer is a beginning.
THE PERSON BEHIND THE WORDS
Hi, I’m John LaPierre.
One Better Choice at a Time grew out of years of real life, faith, and lessons I’m still learning to practise.
Why I wrote this.
I’ve made mistakes. I’ve had to ask for forgiveness, accept help, and learn to take responsibility for what I do next. Faith, recovery, and honest conversations have helped me keep going.
Over several years, I brought together experiences, journal entries, prayers, and lessons from conversations that stayed with me. Those are the roots of One Better Choice at a Time and this daily devotional, A Day in the Life.
I wanted to offer something people could use in an ordinary day: a moment with Scripture, an honest reflection, and one practical choice to carry into their own lives. Forgiveness, surrender, gratitude, grief, and hope are things I’m learning about, too.
MY HOPE FOR THESE READINGS
That something here helps you feel less alone and find one better choice you can make today.
How this work came together.
I used AI to help organize my material, develop drafts, and refine the wording. It also helped build this app. The experiences, lessons, faith, and purpose that I brought to the work are my own.
I share that openly because honesty matters to me. Technology helped me express and share something I had spent years living and working through.
Why I’m sharing it freely.
I want these readings to be easy to reach and share. If one helps you, I hope you’ll pass it along to someone who could use it.
My hope is to turn what I’ve learned into encouragement and practical help for others, one person and one better choice at a time.
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About this devotional.
A Day in the Life
One Better Choice at a Time
By John LaPierre
All 366 readings from the final 6×9 Berean Standard Bible edition, including each prayer, question, commitment, and One Better Choice.
Open the original book ↗Open the original companion workbook ↗The workbook journal includes the companion book’s daily questions, weekly reflections, monthly intentions and reviews, and year-end reflection.