Week Ending Friday February 19, 2021
{quotes}
You can’t go back and change the beginning, but you can start where you are and change the ending.
C.S. Lewis
Some events are in the area of the soul where words cannot penetrate.
Neal Cassady
It is a little dark still, but there are warnings of the day and somewhere out of the darkness a bird is singing to the dawn.
Paul Laurence Dunbar
Don’t dig up in doubt what you planted in faith.
Elisabeth Elliot
Never be afraid to trust an unknown future to a known God.
Corrie ten Boom
{blessings}
With Faith
Worry is just a bad mental habit. You can break the habit with faith. May you be blessed with a worry-free mindset.
Comeback
The comeback is always stronger than the setback. May God bless you with strength to overcome.
Completely
You don’t need someone to complete you. You need someone to accept you completely. May you be blessed with a partner who loves you fully, generously, and unconditionally.
Heart-Thumping Appreciation
It may take a while to get better. But you will see, when it does, you will be blessed with heart-thumping appreciation, gained from God’s lesson on working through the hard times.
Favored Child
Whether you see it or not, your life is making a positive difference for someone else. May you be blessed with the reward God saves for the do-gooder. You are important, you have a purpose, you are God’s favored child.
{prayers}
Only Good
Into the Lord’s hands, I place this day. There’s no harm in the holy hands of the Lord, only good. Whatever happens, it is the Lord’s will, part of a Divine plan, and it is good.
Wordless Embrace
God. Make my prayer a wordless embrace of all I cannot understand and allow my heart to acknowledge the wonder in life, even in the midst of struggle.
Karyn Kedar excerpt from Amen: Seeking Presence with Prayer, Poetry, and Mindfulness Practice
Day of Perfection
Today arrived on time, at 12:00 am, fresh and new, a clean slate waiting to be written on. I have the chalk, You, wait patiently with the eraser, knowing I will make mistakes. I, anxiously, prepare to surprise You with a day of perfection, or at least twenty-four hours of good intention, accompanied by my deeds, bravery, and acts of loving-kindness, all in Your holy Name.
Buried Prayers
I stand before You Lord, with only hope in hand. When the pain refuses to subside, I hope. When the people in my life struggle, I hope. When my heart feels empty, I hope and You uncover my deeply buried prayers. Praise to You, source of faith.
Free to Simply Be
Today is the perfect day You made, dear God. And You made it for me, to live free, to love, and to simply be.
{stories, features, videos}
Video: Valentines Day Acapella
Feature: The Ladies’ Room with Trudy Berlin
Video Hymn: Be Thou My Vision, Audrey Assad
Comedy Video: Teen Stand Up, Dylan Roche
Feature Story: Love is For Keeps
Music Video: Star-Spangled Banner, Wawa Snipes, Eric Church, Jazmine Sullivan + About Wawa Snipes
{bible}
Psalm 46:5
God is within her, she will not fall. God will help when the morning dawns.
Revelation 19:1
Glory, Glory, Hallelujah!
1 Peter 4:8
Above all, I keep fervent in my love for others, because love covers a multitude of sins.
Psalm 34:5
Those who look to God for help will be radiant with joy; no shadow of shame will darken their faces.
Isaiah 49:11
And I will make all the mountains a way, and my highways shall be raised up.