Week End Saturday September 16, 2017
{blessings}
Missed Opportunities
Missed opportunities. It’s not that you didn’t know. It’s that you knew, but you didn’t act. May you be blessed to take action when you know something to be true, needed, and for the greater good. Don’t let an opportunity slip away because of inaction. God dangles these goodies in front of you because it’s your destiny to do them.
Make Them Feel Good
People will forget what you said, they’ll forget what you did, but they will never forget how you made them feel. May you be blessed to make someone feel good today. Give a compliment. Share a hug. Be kind.
When Trouble Comes
It is said: in this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes. We would add one more thing. Expect trouble as an inevitable part of life. And when trouble comes, hold your head high, look it squarely in the eye, and say, ‘I am be bigger than you. You cannot defeat me.’ May God bless you with courage.
Best Self
Some will love you and some will teach you. But the ones who are truly important are the ones who bring out the best in you. May everyone you meet be a blessing to you and may the role they play in your life help you grow to be your very best self.
Powerful
When you dare to be powerful, to use your strength in the service of others, then it becomes less and less important whether you are afraid. May you be blessed with bravery that serves others well and serves you too.
{prayers}
God is My Help
Dear God I fall short, but You are my help. I am no angel, but I look to You. I am not strong, but You are unshakable. I may not be perfect, but I am willing. For in my weakness, I have Your grace. For tough decisions, I have Your Spirit. For every need, I have You.
Your Will
Lord You surprised me. Just when I got to the point where my plans were made and it was all figured out, it changed. Again. I can bear anything dear Lord, knowing that it is ultimately Your will. Ease me down gently from sorrow and disappointment. Lift me up slow yet sure, to the new place where you want me to be. I trust in You to know my destiny. I trust You Lord to fulfill it.
A Prayer for Love & Politics
Everyone is angry these days. I can’t stand the shouting and I turn to You for answers. God, You are about love. Is it not time for You to step in? Please let love reanimate the body politic. Teach Your children to use their “indoor” voices to reason, not accuse. Tutor us in civility, for without it there is no dialogue. Open the hearts and minds of leaders on both sides of the aisle, so that we may go forward as one.
Spirit of Gratitude
Today is the perfect day to be grateful. Your love, O God, sustains me. Keep the spirit of gratitude alive within me. Help me hold on to the values I cherish: strength of character, generosity, kindness, and joy.
Kindred Spirits
Help me to have confidence in my thinking so I don’t live by everyone else’s rules. It’s possible to achieve success later in life. and change is something to be embraced. Help me to choose wisely those who populate my world. Kindred spirits with the best intentions. Help me to rededicate my commitments and I will remember who I am and Whose I am. If You are with me, Oh God, there is nothing else to prove.
{stories, blogs, articles & more}
Story: Forgiveness
Article: Unlikely Pen Pals
Video: Can’t Miss
Encouragement: Letter to Jonathan
Blog: Miracle of Flying
Memoir: Beauty-full Story
Video: Hugh Herr, Bionics
{bible}
Psalm 55:23
Cast your burden upon the Lord and He shall sustain you. He shall never suffer the righteous to be moved.
Grace, Growth, and Glory
GRACE is His power to sustain us regardless of our circumstances. 2 Corinthians 12:9
GROWTH is the development of our personhood on both character and competency. Romans 5:3-5 James 1:1-5
GLORY is the reflection of His character and capacity through our suffering as the world watches to see if our God is powerful enough and good enough to be counted on in trouble. John 9:3-4
Romans 5:8
I loved you at your darkest.
Cause me to hear Your loving kindness in the morning, for I trust in You. Cause me to know the way in which I should walk, for I lift up my soul to You.Psalms 127:1
Get God Involved. Unless the Lord builds a house the work of the builders is wasted. Unless the Lord protects a city guarding it will do no good.
{affirmations}
Love of God
The love of God harmonizes and heals the thoughts I hold in mind about others.
Better Human Being
Having a bad day? I am more mindful of my personal actions. I think about what motivates me to do what I do and to say the things I do to others. I will not explain away my actions because of stress or anger. I am turning a bad day into a good one. I thank God for another chance to a better human being.
Sorrow into Song
I am grieving, First I cried. Then I became silent. I am ready to transform this sorrow into song. To let the world know I am a survivor.
The Only Way
The only way to get what I really want is to know what I really want. And the only way to know what I really want is to know myself. And the only way to know myself is to be myself. And the only way to be myself is to listen to my heart.
Stick With It
I will stick with it. I’ll stay with my problems longer and figure it out instead of giving up.
{quotes}
We are all born from God. It is the principle of existence and it’s only end.
Even the smallest act of service, the simplest act of kindness, is a way to honor those we lost, a way to reclaim that spirit of unity that followed 9/11.
Strength is when you have so much to cry about, but you smile instead.
The best time to listen is before the conversation begins.
Try and fail, but don’t fail to try.
If you want something new, stop doing something old.