Week Ending Friday June 28, 2019
{quotes}
Peace is happiness at rest. Happiness is peace in action.
Prayer has three simple rules: faith, gratitude, and love.
Prayer has three simple rules: faith, gratitude, and love.
For the vulnerable heart, the ambitious heart, the joyful heart, the hopeful heart, the tired heart, the fearful heart, the seeking heart, the practical heart, the silent heart, there is a place for prayer. – JLI adapted
Do one simple thing today that will lead you closer to God.
Happiness is not a matter of intensity but of balance, order, rhythm and harmony. – Thomas Merton
{blessings}
Slack
Cut yourself some slack. Allow a few extra minutes of downtime today. Use your minutes for observation. Look up from your cell phone, look away from the television and simply look around you. May your eyes see the blessing of your surroundings and may your heart know the blessing of downtime well spent.
Self-Reliant
God doesn’t grant wishes or make dreams come true. You make it happen, God gives you the power. May you be blessed by your self-reliance and graced with God’s blessings.
Bring on the Wonder
It’s not just a ritual. Prayer can transport you from blah to awestruck. Let it happen. Bring God’s wonder to your prayer life. May you be blessed with a meaningful spiritual life.
Crescent Moon
The moon is your proof. You don’t need to be complete to be whole. May you be blessed to be your best no matter what shape you’re in.
Daughter of a King
You are the daughter of a King. You stand firm in this world for your God is with you and lights your way. You are fearless. You are blessed.
{prayers}
My Own Power
Dear God, May my faith in You be enough to overcome challenges and make my own success. I pray my hopes and dreams come true because of hard work, persistence, and faith. Praise to You who brings me strength to accomplish great things by my own power, with Your Divine guidance and blessing. Amen
Brilliance
Lord, You are the light within me and I rejoice! Life is invigorating and delightful! It is filled with Your brilliance! You are the light within me and I thank You!
Start With Gratitude
I start each day from a positive, humble and grateful frame of mind. I pray for relief from stress. I hope for focus, clarity and connection as I give praise and ask for blessings. JLI adapted
Impatient
Oh Holy One. I ask Your forgiveness. I have been negative, and impatient with myself. Give me a do-over. Help me stop this unhealthy self-abuse. Let me know my value as Your devoted child, made in Your image, worthy and deserving of kindness.
Day of Surprise
A day of surprise and delight awaits me. I am confident all good will come my way reassured in a firm belief that God has my back. And when I face disappointment, I know it will be fleeting. Nothing will happen today that is not ultimately for my well-being.
{stories, features, video}
Story: No Place to Go
Feature: Locking Eyes, Hannah Brenchner
Video: Life Can Change at Anytime
Feature: Villagers Open Their Homes for Libraries
Feature: Hoover Jones Comes Home
Feature: The Struggler, John Greenleaf Whittier
{bible affirmations}
2 Corinthians 9:7
God loves a cheerful giver.
Psalm 139:23-24
Search me, O God and know my heart. Test me and know my anxious thoughts. Point out anything in me that offends You and lead me along the path of everlasting life.
Psalm 139:14
Live joyfully, not because your circumstances are joyful, but because you are simply joyful. God made you wonderfully complex. His workmanship is marvelous. Know it well.
John 20:29
Blessed are those who believe without seeing.
1 Samuel 16:7
God doesn’t see things the way you see them. People judge by outward appearance, but the Lord looks at the heart.