Week Ending Friday, November 26, 2021
{quotes}
If grass can grow through cement, love can find you at every time in your life.
Cher
A person often meets his destiny on the road he took to avoid it.
Jean de La Fontaine
Nature gives to every time and season some beauties of its own.
Charles Dickens
What if today we were just grateful for everything?
Charlie Brown
Dare to be naive.
Buckminster Fuller
{blessings}
You Don’t Deserve It
Nobody deserves to be confronted with hateful words from a negative person. Least of all you. May God bless the offenders, and may your soul be at peace once more.
All Will Be Good
Don’t get caught worrying about dangers that may be. Instead, give Praise to God for the blessing of knowing all will be good.
Best Today
Do all you can today, with all that you have today. May you be blessed with the best from your efforts and may you find peace, prosperity, and happiness, today and always.
Bursting With Appreciation
Gratitude turns what you have into enough. May God bless you with a grateful spirit, a thankful body, and a mind bursting with appreciation.
Who You Are Now
One day you’ll find someone who doesn’t care about your past because they want to be your future. May God bless you with people in your life who love you for who you are now, not what you once did.
{prayers}
Division
Dear God, Shift the winds of divisive influence in another direction. Send it far, far away, where it can not touch our children. Soften the hardened hearts, recipients of destruction.
Presence of Peace
Dear God, I pray that each person finds You in their own way. That they are profoundly moved by You. That hearts are warmed by Your love. May every seeker find a presence of peace so strong, that it cannot be denied. Amen
We Give Thanks + Abridged w/Image
For the expanding grandeur of Creation, worlds known and unknown, galaxies beyond galaxies, filling us with awe and challenging our imaginations, We give thanks. For this fragile planet earth, its times and tides, its sunsets and seasons, We give thanks. For the joy of human life, its wonders and surprises, its hopes and achievements, We give thanks. For human community, our common past and future hope, our oneness transcending all separation, our capacity to work for peace and justice in the midst of hostility and oppression, We give thanks. For high hopes and noble causes, for faith without fanaticism, for understanding of views not shared, We give thanks. For all those who have labored and suffered for a fairer world, who have lived so that others might live in dignity and freedom, We give thanks. For human liberties and sacred rites, for opportunities to change and grow, to affirm and choose, We give thanks. We pray that we may live not by our fears but by our hopes, not by our words but by our deeds, not by scarcity but by abundance. Blessed are You, O God, Your Name is goodness and You are worthy of thanks giving.
Thanksgiving Gathering
Dear God, We give thanks for the pleasure of gathering together for this occasion. We give thanks for this food prepared by loving hands. We give thanks for good health, life, and the freedom to enjoy it all. We offer prayers for those who want. May Your children in need today be blessed and know the pleasures of family, food, and friends. Amen
Right Where I Am
Right where I am is where I should be. In the center of Your will, the perfect place to rest and dream undisturbed. When I need to go forth You will tell me. Your timing flawless, I will respond. The path is not marked but I don’t worry, soon Your way will be known.
{bible affirmations}
Philippians 2:3-4
Don’t be selfish; don’t try to impress others. Be humble, thinking of others as better than yourselves. Don’t look out only for your own interests, but take an interest in others, too.
Genesis 13:17
Arise, walk about the land through its length and breadth; for I will give it to you.
Psalm 138:3
My child, I hear your call. I am making you ready for your future. You are growing, expanding your mind, opening your heart to all you will receive.
Psalm 107:1
Give thanks to God, for God is good!
Deuteronomy 4:19
When you look up into the sky and see the sun, moon, and stars—all the forces of heaven—don’t be seduced into worshiping them. The Lord your God gave them to all the peoples of the earth.
{stories, features, videos}
Video Story: The Bench
Feature: Hannah Brenchner on God & Medication
Video + Prayer: Tiny Home Community for the Homeless
Feature: 7 Reasons You’re Not Rich…Yet
Music Video: Thankful by Juicebox Jukebox