Week End April 6, 2018
{quotes}
No fooling. It’s Easter, Passover, and April’s Fool Day. It’s sacred and fun all rolled in to one!
Getting it done is better than getting it perfect.
Doing the best at this moment puts you in the best place for the next moment.
Oprah Winfrey
Technically, Moses was the first person with a tablet downloading data from the cloud.
It’s fine to celebrate success but more important to heed the lessons of failure.
Bill Gates
A good cure for most anything is the salt water of tears, sweat or God’s blue ocean.
{blessings}
Blessed Heart
You have a big heart and one day soon someone will recognize it and your life will change. May your heart be a blessing to the one you love.
Choice is Yours
It’s your choices that show who you are, much more than your talent or circumstances. May God guide you to the blessing of good choices, wherever and whenever you make them.
Never Changing God
Things may change, but when you start every day with God, there is continuity. May you be blessed with the holy companionship of a never changing God.
Blesslings
“Blesslings” are blessings not yet grown. Nurture the tiny God-given miracles in your life and may they soon come to be a full-fledged blessing unto you.
Workout
You’ve got some heavy lifting to do and God is your spotter. May you be blessed with strength and endurance as you work out life issues.
{prayers}
Spring Prayer
Life shoots from the seeds that sweet earth may enclose, like the dawn from the dark, like the opening rose unfurling its petals for all to behold, God’s bountiful, beautiful blessings unfold. From invisible hope, from heart-hidden prayer, from mustard-seed faith in time of despair, from a desert of doubt in a season forlorn, all the joy and the wonder of life is reborn.
RH Grenville
I Pray for You
I pray for you When you’re lonely I pray for you to feel love When you’re down I pray for you to feel joy When you’re troubled I pray for you to feel peace When things are complicated I pray for you to know simplicity When things are chaotic I pray for you to find inner silence When things look empty I pray for you to know fulfillment amen
Embrace the Unexpected
Dear Lord, I put myself fully in Your calm and capable hands. Let no evil come to me. Show me how to live confidently and embrace the unexpected. Whatever my fate, help me deal with it gracefully. Amen
Tired Servant
Dear God, Make me a better steward of all those entrusted to my care. Remind me that tending to those I love is a high honor. Help me to do my part even when I feel wrung out like the laundry on the line, worn out like an old weathered throw rug, left behind like yesterday’s newspaper. Nobody’s taking advantage or taking me for granted. I’ve chosen willingly to be there for the ones in my life and my heart. Bless me as I create a home filled with loving-kindness and let it permeate all souls who enter, including my own. Love, Your tired and faith-filled servant
Let Me Not
Let me not wander hopelessly Let me not labor in vain Let me not mingle with the prejudiced Let me not leave the company of the righteous Let me not fly into anger Let me not stray from the path of goodness Let me not know greed this day or tomorrow Give me such wealth O Almighty! amen
{stories, features, video}
Story: White Lily
Blog: Give Up Grumbling
Flora Slosson Wuellner
Video: Tonight/ Found + lyrics
Article: After 23 Years He Returns to His Job
Music Video: Jealous of the Angels, Donna Taggart
Long Weekend Read + Audio: The Boy Who Lived on Edges
{bible affirmations}
Psalm 4:7
But the joy that God has given me is more than they will ever have with all their material possessions.
God speaks to me: My child, move about the day I made for You with eyes wide open. Search for the little gifts I left you – some obvious, others tucked away in hidden spaces. At nightfall, reflect on your treasures and be grateful.
Philippians 1:6
Be confident that God, who has begun a good work in you, will complete it. Be confident that God began a good work in you, and God will complete it.
My faith in God is unwavering.
Romans 8:28
In everything God works for good. Prepare to have a God blessed day!
God gives me blessing today.
Ecclesiastes 3:7 + Pope Francis 03-25-18
A time to tear, and a time to sew; a time to keep silence, and a time to speak.
The temptation to silence young people has always existed. There are many ways to silence young people and make them invisible. Many ways to anesthetize them, to make them keep quiet, ask nothing, question nothing. There are many ways to sedate them, to keep them from getting involved, to make their dreams flat and dreary, petty and plaintive. It is up to you not to keep quiet. Even if others keep quiet, if we older people and leaders, some corrupt, keep quiet, if the whole world keeps quiet and loses its joy, I ask you: Will you cry out?
Psalms 5:11
Let all who take refuge in the Lord Rejoice!
The Lord is my protection, my security, my sanctuary.