Week Ending Friday May 3, 2019
{quotes}
Ask not what your country can do for you. Ask what you can do for your country. -John F. Kennedy
Life feels richer when you spend your time in gratitude.
The hard part about getting good advice isn’t getting it. It’s following it.
– Seth Godin
When God brings a seemingly humbling, degrading responsibility into our life, we should accept it with positive joy.
– Robert Schuler
Be grateful to the people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.
– Marcel Proust
Each morning is an invitation from God to make the most of a brand new day.
{blessings}
Original Creation
You try to follow the recipe, but instead you add a little of this and a pinch of that. Voila! You have created something totally original. May you be blessed to taste new flavors of your own making. Give yourself a high-five, God is pleased.
Home Sweet Home
May you be blessed with a spiritual home filled with loving community, inspirational leadership, and opportunities of good service to the Lord.
All Used Up
When your time comes to an end and you ascend to heaven, may you be blessed to tell the Lord you used it all up. All the goodness, all of your gifts, did not go to waste.
Be Their Sunshine
Be someone’s sunshine when their skies are gray. May God bless you with compassion. Maybe it’s a simple as sharing a hug, a smile, or holding a hand. Possibly it’s more, like helping to find new perspective. Whatever the method the focus is on love.
Friendly Conversation
A conversation is always better than an argument. You can ask and respond, you can learn something new, you can persuade without malice. May you be blessed with friendly conversations of agreement instead of argument.
{prayers}
Beauty’s Path
Dear God, I am walking down the path of beauty You set before me. Hold my hand, guide my steps, let me feel the strength of your sureness. Help me find my way to becoming the person I am meant to be.
In Glorious Fashion
God, thank You for asking me to live a life of kindness and compassion, generosity and gratitude. The sky is brighter, the earth looks greener, the air is warmer. Praise to You who fashions all glory.
Unshakable Faith
Lord give me unshakeable faith. The kind that doesn’t dilly or dally when things don’t go my way. Lord give me immeasurable wisdom to recognize the tricky truths and embrace them. And Lord, for all this and more, give me inexhaustible strength to hang on tight throughout this wild and wonderful ride of life. Amen
God of Guidance
I seek You as a partner in every significant act. I invest my deciding and doing with direction, worth, and hope. When there is failure, I come to You for consolation. In success I embrace Your assurance. Blessed are You, God of guidance.
It is Good
God, When I am lost remind me – You have already been Where I am headed, and it is good. Praise to You who provides me with direction. Amen
{stories, features, video}
Story: Call Us Higher
Feature: Kanye’s Sunday Service at Coachella PLUS Video
Feature: A Story of Generosity and Magic Within Chaos
Video: Sheryl Crow, Johnny Cash, Redemption Day
Feature: Church of Living Dangerously
Feature: A Good Deed Indeed!
{bible affirmations}
Job 11:16
I forget my troubles. Like water they float away.
Samuel 17:45
They come against me with weapons of destruction but I come against them in the name of the Lord of heavenly forces.
Leviticus 19:1
I shall be holy for my God is holy.
Genesis 2:9
How fine and excellent is God’s garden! I will care for it, not corrupt it.
In the same hour the Holy Blessed One created the first human being, God guided the person before all trees in the Garden of Eden and said: See My works, how fine and excellent they are! Everything I have created, I created for you. Think about this carefully so you do not corrupt and devastate My world, for if you corrupt it there is no one to repair it after you. – Ecclesiastes Commentary Rabbah 7:8
Ecclesiastes 3:11
God makes everything beautiful for its own time.