Week Ending Friday, July 9, 2021
{quotes}
This is courage, to bear unflinchingly what heaven sends.
Euripides
Someone who refuses to keep the commandments until they understand them is like someone who refuses to eat until they understand how the digestive process works.
Friediker Rebbe
It takes courage not to be discouraged.
Ben Ferencz
Love has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get—only with what you are expecting to give—which is everything.
Katharine Hepburn
The best way out is always through.
Robert Frost
{blessings}
Complexity
Some people just don’t get you. You are not like all the others. You and your one million layers of complexity are unique and worthy of understanding. May God bless you to be surrounded by kindhearted people who love you for who you are.
Balance of Ease
Doing what comes naturally is easy. Doing what takes extra effort is much harder. May God bless you with a nice balance of ease and effort as you go about your daily living activities.
God Will Provide
If you give from your heart and never think about yourself, God will provide. May you be blessed with selfless devotion to others.
Free Lunch
There’s no such thing as a free lunch. It cost a little gratitude, and you pay for it with a smile. May God bless you to accept graciously and repay gratefully.
Enjoy It
Do you want to get better results? Enjoy what you’re doing. May you be blessed to lead with passion, no matter who, what, and why. God gave you the skills – use them.
{prayers}
Wrought by Prayer
More things are wrought by prayer than this world dreams of. Therefore, let thy voice rise like a fountain for me night and day. For what are men better than sheep or goats that nourish a blind life within the brain, if knowing God, they lift not hands of prayer, both for themselves and those who call them friends?
Alfred Lord Tennyson
Filled with Fortitude
When I feel that I can’t take it anymore, I reach up to You. Expand my vision so I can see my future is bright. Fill me with fortitude, and I will endure today with a positive attitude, hopeful that my problems fade quickly and solutions are near. Praise to You, who receives prayer and gives peace.
Bright Spirit
Gratitude brings ecstasy to a saddened soul. Oh God, thank You for the loneliness lifted through prayer. In Oneness with You, friendships reveal themselves, love abounds, and I have a new bright spirit.
Prayers for Friends
Dear God. I pray for my friends who need Your help and support today. Provide guidance, give blessings of calm, peace, and confidence, reveal the possibilities that lie ahead. Praise to You who watches over us all.
Your Love Stands Before Me
I offer to you all that I am not, to create with it all that I am. Send Your forces around me, through me. Permeate me. Gently, yet boldly. Undeniably. With honor, I forgo all past violations of myself. Through the darkness, I’ve crawled just to meet you here. All the sacrifice lies behind me. Only Your love stands before me. And now, may my power finally lie within me.
{bible affirmations}
John 17:21
You are in me, and I am in You, O God.
Deuteronomy 32:2
May my teaching drop like the rain, my speech condense like the dew, like gentle rain on grass, like showers on new growth.
1 Peter 3:8
Finally, all of you have unity of spirit, sympathy, love for one another, a tender heart, and a humble mind.
Isaiah 66:9
God does not cause pain without allowing something new to be born.
Numbers 6:24-26
May the Lord bless you and protect you. May the Lord smile on you and be gracious to you. May the Lord show you favor and give you peace.
{stories, videos, features}
Video: Believers Hymn for the Republic
Amanda Gorman, Boston Pops
Feature: What’s Unusual About this Marriage Proposal?
Video: Wedding Surprise at the Alesund Church
Feature: Decide to Succeed
Video: One Minute of Wonder
Rabbi Karyn Kedar
Feature: From/To
Seth Godin