Week Ending Friday, January 14, 2022
{quotes}
You are always someone’s favorite unfolding story.
Ann Patchett
To be grateful for the good things that happen in our lives is easy, but to be grateful for all of our lives the good as well as the bad, the moments of joy as well as the moments of sorrow, the successes as well as the failures, the rewards as well as the rejections that require hard spiritual work.
Henri Nouwen
Any concern too small to be turned into a prayer is too small to be made into a burden.
Corrie Ten Boom
Imagine how differently you might approach each day by simply stating: God is good. God is good to me. God is good at being God. And today is yet another page in our great love story.
Lysa TerKeurst
One of time’s virtues is that it is finite. It’s what gives days their value.
John Leland
{blessings}
Sunrise Light
The sun will rise, and the sun will set. What you choose to do with the light while it’s here is up to you. May you be blessed to give your best today.
Steady Stride
When you’re discouraged and tempted to walk away from God, pause and pray. May you be blessed with a steady stride and always walk in the direction of God.
Your Calling
God doesn’t call the qualified, God qualifies the called. And you dear, have been called. May you be blessed in your service to the Lord with an open heart and boundless energy.
Lifestyle Choices
Live a life you don’t need a vacation from. God has blessed you with choices for a happy lifestyle. Choose wisely.
God Provides
Money doesn’t buy happiness, you can only rent it for a short while. May God bless you to own your finances. May you always have enough money to live comfortably with the ones you love. God provides.
{prayers}
Not to Judge
Dear God, Remind me each day that, of all the gifts you give me, the greatest gift is love. It is not enough to share my love with those I hold dear. Open my heart to the old couple who held up the line while counting their change. To the homeless man asking for money who is a slave to his addictions. To the clueless server at the coffee shop who is a struggling student worried about a tuition bill that’s due. Help me be slow to judge, abundantly patient, and generous with my love.
Hope and Pray
Heartily I hope, devotedly I pray, these troubles of mine will soon pass away. With hard feelings for none, and forgiveness to all, what looms large now will quickly be small. Help me to get past the challenges, Your test. I promise, dear God, to give You my best.
Boomer Prayer
Dear God, show me the grace in growing older; living with my aches and pain, being gentle to myself when I forget, and knowing it’s okay to have a little more help from the people who love me.
Deliver Me
Good God, deliver me. From the cowardice that dare not face new truth. From the laziness that is content with half-truth. From the arrogance that thinks it knows all truth.
Kenyan Prayer
Love and Adoration
I pray You will always stay close in our marriage, dear God. Wherever we are, in good times or bad, help us to feel You near. Infill our souls with love and adoration for each other, for You, and for the world You created. Amen
{bible affirmations}
Deuteronomy 32:2
Let my teaching fall like rain, and my words descend like dew.
Exodus 33:14
My presence will go with you, and I will give you rest.
Isaiah 44:22
I swept away your sins like a cloud. I scattered your offenses like the mist of morning. Return to me. I paid the price to set you free.
Thank You Lord for loving me and redeeming me.
Proverbs 31:29
There are many good women but you are the best of them all.
Proverbs 3:5
Trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding.
{stories, features, videos}
Story: Boat Holes
ebook: 12 Prayers for Healing
by Prayables
Feature: Janitor Becomes Bar Mitzvah Photography King
Holy Humor! The book “How to Run from God” contains only one word “Don’t!”
Feature: Golden Era of Libraries
Music Video: The Church Basement Dante Bowe