Week Ending Friday February 5, 2021
{quotes}
There’s a crack in everything. That’s how the light gets in.
Leonard Cohen
It’s not the will to win that matters—everyone has that. It’s the will to prepare to win that matters.
Paul “Bear” Bryant
You can waste your lives drawing lines. Or you can live your life crossing them.
Shonda Rhimes
It’s our insides that make us who we are, that allow us to dream and wonder and feel for others. That’s what’s essential. That’s what will always make the biggest difference in our world.
Fred Rogers
Truth is incontrovertible. Panic may resent it. Ignorance may deride it. Malice may distort it. But there it is.
Winston Churchill
{blessings}
Another Chance
God blessed you with a new month, and another chance to get it right. Open your heart to it.
Hand Up
God knows you’ll succeed. Start now. Give a hand up to the next one climbing the ladder. God will bless you with the success you request.
Complaint-Free Day
Today is the day to press pause on your complaints and to press play on doing something about them. May God bless you with a complaint-free day and may you do what it takes to make it better.
Caring for Others
Plants, trees, and animals are, like you, God’s creation. May you be blessed to care for them as you would care for another of your own species.
Change to Glory
Double the possibility of glorious change in your life when faith meets trust. May you be blessed with faith in yourself, trust in God, and an open heart to accept the good things coming your way.
{prayers}
Pray it Now: Appreciation
They say appreciation is the greatest form of prayer. Do You know, God, how deeply I appreciate You? Have I told You, showed You, emboldened myself by being grateful to You? I pray it now: I appreciate my God.
Family Guidance
Help me guide and support my children. Let me be wise in my ways and a worthy role model. Fortify me, and I will share my strength. May the ones I love know the satisfaction that comes from hard work rewarded. Praise to You, Loving God, who keeps families together in harmony, peace, and happiness forever.
Send Your Best
Today I say a special prayer to ask the Lord above, to fill my heart and bless my soul, with the precious gift of love. I’m asking for sincere love, the kind that’s meant to stay, just like the love God gives me, each and every day. I pray to find this cherished friend, humbly I request, for me to meet my soulmate and for God to send His best.
Nectar of Kindness
Dear God, May the nectar of kindness touch my lips as I speak, may I find in myself the vast blue sky of inclusiveness and may my hands turn the wheel of time toward a more just world, a more beautiful world, a world worthy of my holy life.
Larry Ward
Lord’s Will
Lord, if it is not your will, let it slip through my grasp and give me the peace not to worry about it.
{features, stories, videos}
Story: Art from the Heart, Jeff Hanson
Video: Meaning of Live, Warren Buffett
Feature: Answering Questions About a Crappy World and Crappy Art, Nick Cave
Feature: Holy Humor, Church Mice
Feature: Hero Saves Mother and Child
Music Video: Every Praise, Hezekiah Walker
{bible}
Psalm 69:13
But as for me, my prayer is to you, O Lord. At an acceptable time, O God, in the abundance of your steadfast love, answer me. With your faithful help.
Leviticus 19:18
Do not seek revenge or bear a grudge against anyone among your people, but love your neighbor as yourself. I am the Lord.
Job 29:23
Indeed, they waited for me as one waits for a good rain, and they opened their mouths as if to catch spring showers on their tongues.
Matthew 18:19-20
Where two or three are gathered in My name, there I am, in the midst of them.
Genesis 12:2
I will make your name great, and you shall be a blessing.