Week End Friday November 23, 2018
{quotes}
Achieving your peace doesn’t come from what you do occasionally, it comes from what you do consistently.
Sisters are like fairy tales, they’ve been there since once upon a time and will be there for happily ever after.
Each one reach one. Each one teach one. Each one be One with our Lord.
Only a handful of things you worry about in life come true.
Give this one day to thanks, to joy, to gratitude!
Henry Ward Beecher
It’s not about the shopping.
{blessings}
Bitterness
Bitterness paralyzes life love empowers it. Bitterness sours life love sweetens it. Bitterness sickens life love heals it. May you be blessed to dispel bitterness from your life and to replace it with love. -Harry Emerson Fosdick (inspired)
Emergency
Those emergencies from a month ago are gone. They were resolved, or they became something you live with. May you be blessed to see emergencies fade and may you always know the strength gained by outlasting them.
– Seth Godin (inspired)
Accepting
Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get. Contentment is a blessing when you accept whatever it is God gives you.
Thanksgiving Bounty
Thanksgiving is a day when gratitude is a household theme. A place to gather becomes a home, a meal with family and friends becomes a feast, and it is a day when God is a guest at our table. May we be blessed with thankfulness for the bounty of divine gifts.
Gift Giving
God has given you so much and is expecting you to give back in equal proportion. May you be blessed with astounding appreciation for your gifts and an extraordinary gift for giving .
{prayers}
Give God Glory
I rise and shine. I shout for joy. I give God glory!
New Day
Today’s a new day. Your sun rose this morning bringing light to the world. Let me be the light to someone’s darkness. Help me retain my good humor and cheer. Surround me in Your love and I will share the joy I feel. Praise to You, who makes me new again.
For Them
Dear Lord, I ask that you reach down and lay Your loving hand upon each person praying right now and guide them in Your way. Show them Your love. Grant them many blessings. Heal their hurt. Remove their worries. Restore their faith. With You by the sides of Your devoted, so much will be accomplished. I love You.
We Give Thanks
For the expanding grandeur of Creation, this fragile planet earth, its times and tides, its sunsets and seasons: We give thanks For human community, our common past and future hope, our oneness transcending all separation, our capacity to work for peace and justice in the midst of hostility and oppression: We give thanks For high hopes and noble causes, for faith without fanaticism, for understanding of views not shared: We give thanks For all who have labored and suffered for a fairer world, who have lived so that others might live in dignity and freedom: We give thanks For human liberties and sacred rites, for opportunities to change and grow, to affirm and choose: We give thanks We pray that we may live not by our fears but by our hopes, not by our words but by our deeds, not in scarcity but in abundance: Amen
The Source
Dear God, You are the provider of every meal, the listener to every silent conversation, the source where joy is found. Praise to You holy Father who is love and forgiveness. Amen
{features, stories, video}
Story: The Spectacular Death of Rosa Parks
Feature: Pat Tillman’s Wife Takes a Stand
Music Video: Dear God, Hunter Haynes
PBS Video: Reason to be Hopeful
Music Video: Thankful, Josh Groban
Long Weekend Read: The Texas Prison Love Story
{bible affirmations}
Hebrews 11:1
My faith is the substance of things I hope for and the evidence of things I have not seen.
Psalms 35:1-2
The Lord fights those who are against me. God always protects me and comes to my aid.
John 15:16
God chose me!
Psalm 107:8-9
Let’s give thanks for the Lord’s unfailing love and wondrous deeds. We are satisfied when we are thirsty and filled with tasty delights when we are hungry.
Isaiah 58:11
I am like a well watered garden, and ever flowing spring. The Lord is continually guiding me, giving me water when I am dry, restoring my strength when I feel weak.
