Week Ending Friday, October 18, 2024
{quotes}
If there is no wind, row.
Latin Proverb
Follow your enthusiasm. It’s something I’ve always believed in. Find those parts of your life you enjoy the most. Do what you enjoy doing.
Jim Henson
We can have faith in the future only if we have faith in ourselves.
John F. Kennedy
Now is the accepted time, not tomorrow, not some more convenient season. It is today that our best work can be done.
W.E.B. Du Bois
Once you accept an idea, it’s an idea whose time has come.
William James
{prayers}
Prayer for Peace
Lord, make me an instrument of your peace. Where there is hatred, let me sow love. Where there is injury, pardon. Where there is doubt, faith. Where there is despair, hope. Where there is darkness, light. Where there is sadness, joy. O divine Master, grant that I may not so much seek to be consoled as to console. To be understood as to understand. To be loved as to love. For it is in giving that we receive, it is in pardoning that we are pardoned, and it is in dying that we are born to eternal life.
St. Francis of Assisi
Give Me a Sign
Lord, give me a sign, and I will know it. Lead the way, and I shall follow. Bless me, and I will be Your blessing.
Prayer Affirmation
I am loved, called, and chosen. I am rich in every way and generous on every occasion. I’m anointed, appointed, equipped, and enabled by the power of God that works mightily within me!
Susie Larson
Heart Beats
My heart beats not for myself, but for You, O Lord; my center, my being, my God.
Turn Up the Heat
Dear God, You tell me to love the other as I love myself. Yet, in the days of my self-doubt, defeat, and unbearable hardship, love is distant, and my heart grows cold. Stir the embers, turn up the heat, help me, O God.
{bible affirmations}
A wise man’s heart turns him toward the right, the way of blessing. A fool’s heart turns him toward the left, the way of condemnation.
Ecclesiastes 10:2
He gives power to the weak and strength to the powerless.
Isaiah 40:29
God will restore the lost years.
Joel 2:25
The pain that you’re feeling can’t compare to the joy that’s coming.
Romans 8:18
Wrap your heart tightly around the hope within you, knowing God always keeps His promises.
Hebrews 10:23
{blessings}
Be a Blessing
You are blessed to be a blessing to others.
Everyday Living
May you be blessed with grit, grace and gratitude as you tackle the challenges of everyday living.
Personal Peace
Peace is personal. May God bless you with peace of heart and a peaceful soul.
Threefold
Your blessings are threefold: Devotion to God, in service to others, and satisfaction with yourself.
Everything to Gain
Your strain is your gain. When challenges dare you to lose hope, show them what you’ve got. May God bless you in difficult situations.
{stories, videos, features)
Story: Sister Placida
Story: As Days Go By
Music Video: Psalm 34 Brooklyn Tabernacle Choir
Feature: Finding Grandma
Parable: A Primer on Listening
Friday Funnies: Church Jokes