Week Ending Friday, February 10, 2023
{quotes}
To be seen in this life, truly observed without judgment, is what it feels like to be loved.
Cicely Tyson
Nature, time and patience are three great physicians.
H.G. Bohn
Guard well your spare moments. They are like uncut diamonds. Discard them and their value will never be known. Improve them and they will become the brightest gems in a useful life.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
With ordinary talent and extraordinary perseverance, all things are attainable.
Thomas Fowell Buxton
Your greatest test is when you are to bless someone else while you are going through your own storms.
Rafael Garcia
{blessings}
Love Your Enemy
Love your enemy. Not as a strategy to get them to see things from your perspective. Instead, love them by finding their good and embracing it. God has commanded us to love one another. Let it be your blessing to do it right.
Turning Tears
May the tears you cried water the seeds you planted. God bless you with growth and good fortune.
Force for Good
May God bless you to always be a force for good.
Peace in Your Wallet
Being at peace with your finances is a goal and a blessing. It seems that no matter how much is earned, there’s always a desire for more. May God bless you to appreciate what you have and to be at peace with whatever is in your wallet.
Curve Appeal
A smile is a little curve that can straighten out many problems. May God bless your good nature, and may your face always reflect the delight that is found in each and every day.
{prayers}
Rise Up With God
Dear God. Lift me up for Your blessings today. Grace me with strength. For this, I pray. Give me patience, good sense, and good humor, too. As always, this day, I will rise with You. Amen
All I May Be
Thank You God for all that I have, all that I am, and all that I may one day become. I know this is possible because of the opportunities You gave me, the teachers You sent my way. Please help me give back to the world, by being the glowing example that You mean for me to be each and every day. In my actions, my words, and my love – may others see You shining through me.
The Faith Prayer
God is my help in every need; God does my every hunger feed; God walks beside me, guides my way through every moment of the day. God is my health; I can’t be sick; God is my strength, unfailing, quick; God is my all; I know no fear since God and Love and Truth are here.
Hannah More Kohaus (abridged)
Good Morning Prayer
It’s a good morning. God, delight me with Your miracles today. Not only do I believe in them, I depend on the miracles of everyday living that You provide. Dazzle me with the splendor of Your good earth under my feet, the spacious skies overhead, and the sweet air filled with your breath to sustain me. Praise to You — glorious, gracious God Almighty!
Mysterious Ways
Dear God, whenever I don’t understand what’s happening in my life, I close my eyes, take a deep breath, and affirm my faith in You. It’s Your plan. I accept it. I will make the most of what I have been given. Praise to You, mysterious in Your ways, who helps me learn and grow from adversity.
{bible affirmations}
Psalm 122:1-2
We lift our eyes to the mountains. Where does our help come from? Our help comes from God, the Maker of heaven and earth.
2 Corinthians 9:8
God can make all grace abound toward you. That you, always having all sufficiency in all things, may abound to every good work.
Matthew 25:35
I was hungry, and you gave me food, I was thirsty, and you gave me drink. I was a stranger, and you welcomed me.
Ecclesiastes 9:11
Again I saw that under the sun, the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, nor bread to the wise, nor riches to the intelligent, nor favor to those with knowledge, but time and chance happen to them all.
Philippians 2:13
God is at work in you, both to will and to work for God’s good pleasure.
{stories, videos, features}
Story: Story: If You Were God
Story: Find Out More
Humor: Funny Zin Prayer
Feature: Welcome the Stranger
Feature: Mural of Kanye West Gets an Update Video + Article
Music Video: Joy in the Morning, Tauren Wells