Week End April 20, 2018
{quotes}
The soul often speaks through longing.
Sue Monk Kidd
Prepare your children to walk a difficult path rather than trying to prepare an easy path for your children.
Some people want it to happen, some people pray it will happen, others want, pray and make it happen.
Not all those who wander are lost.
J.R.R. Tolkien
Love yourself and you will be invincible.
Frederick Buechner
Nobody is born a hero. You become a hero when you fight back.
{blessings}
Burning Bridges
Don’t be afraid to burn a bridge in order to stop the drama from following you. May you be blessed with discernment; to know when to leave a bad situation and which hurtful relationships must come to an end. You deserve a life free from turmoil.
Happy With Your Lot
Be happy with your lot. Life is just that simple. May You be blessed with an overwhelming sense of satisfaction. Contentment is a decision you make.
Breakthrough
God greets you from the other side of sorrow and despair with hand outstretched. May you be blessed with a firm grip and breakthrough from that which holds you back.
Jump for Joy
Jump for joy, it’s good exercise. Release your inner kid today and be giddy with excitement. It’s a happy day and you are blessed.
Flavor of Faith
At times you may have treated God like a bubblegum machine. You dropped a coin in the prayer slot and expected an answered prayer to roll out. Perhaps the answers that tumbled out were not always what you liked. God blesses you with a variety of answered prayers, all sweet and good for you. Taste the flavor of faith.
blessing inspired by the works of Molly Buchanan
{prayers}
Hope
Lord I need a big dose of hope today. The real kind of hope that brings lightness to a heavy day. I am tired of trying to swallow the pain that is my reality. There were days I thought You had forgotten me only to discover You were holding me so close I couldn’t see. You prove faithful time after time. When the hurt refuses to subside, I will whisper Your name in praise and refocus my mind on You, Lord. Only in You do I find my hope. amen
Burden to None
God I call upon You in sincerity and stand humbly before You hopeful in faith. I pray that I will be a burden to no one. Make me mighty in will and steadfast in determination. By Your grace I shall prosper, with Your love I will prevail. Amen
Unexpected Income
I believe in God and in His ability to bring serendipity to my finances. Abundance is mine in ways I expect and ways I can’t imagine. I am ready for a miracle. New streams of money come into my life. I am delighted and surprised by how well this prayer works.
Life Flow
Dear God, I give thanks today for life flowing within me, ever-renewing, filling me with experiences which lead me to an even better tomorrow. Thank You for my ability to be joyous, happy, and cheerful. Thank You for this day to laugh and love with people I care about. Praise to You, God who brings life. Amen
Center of Everything
God You are the center of everything. You exist, I know. You’re here to keep me dreaming. You ask me to keep trusting in an infinite plan that will surely bring me peace amid my sadness, among this doubt. You are enough. All this is enough. Amen
{features, stories, video}
Story: The Threshold
Video: Happiness is What You Do
Feature: We Built a Harp
Feature: Selfless Act of Kindness
Comedy Video: Jim Gaffigan – Pope
Feature: To The Person Who Stole My Bicycle
{bible affirmations}
2 Corinthians 6:4-10
Find joy in the midst of sorrow. You are God’s appointed minister. Have patience when facing hardship – it will pass. Embrace the love within you when you have been beaten, deprived and endangered. Know honor though shamed, truth though deceived, riches though penniless, joy though sorrowful. Praise the Holy Spirit which you embody. The power of God sustains you.
I will mourn my losses and focus on the good which remains.
Psalm 43:3
Lord, let Your light and Your truth lead me.
In my darkness I see the light of God and I go.
Proverbs 15:15
Goodness of heart is a continuous feast.
I will drink in the goblet of goodness and live all my days fulfilled.
Revelation 21:4
He will wipe away every tear from their eyes, and death shall be no more, neither shall there be mourning, nor crying, nor pain anymore, for the former things have passed away.
Heaven awaits me.
Exodus 20:21
Honor your father and your mother, so that you may live long in the land the Lord your God is giving you.
I learn the story of my parents and take it on as my own. In that way I honor them and lengthen the days of my life.