Week Ending Friday, November 19, 2021
{quotes}
If only our eyes saw souls instead of bodies, how different our ideals of beauty would be.
Lauren Jauregui
Hearty laughter is a good way to jog internally without having to go outdoors.
Norman Cousins
The function of freedom is to free someone else.
Toni Morrison
Love isn’t a state of perfect caring. It is an active noun like “struggle.” To love someone is to strive to accept that person exactly the way they are, right here and now.
Fred Rogers
In most things, success depends on knowing how long it takes to succeed.
Montesquieu
There is nothing more expensive, than something free.
Japanese Proverb
{blessings}
Tool for Hope
Optimism is a tool that allows you to solve problems more effectively. May God bless you to have a positive attitude despite the challenges you face. In all you do, be hopeful, faithful, and full of optimism.
Receding Memories
Don’t hold grudges. It’s not helpful, it’s hateful, and it’s not the way of God. May you be blessed with forgiveness first and receding memories of the offense that will disappear with time.
Bigger Than Your Mistakes
God’s plans are bigger than your mistakes. You are blessed by Your Creator, who set wondrous ways in motion.
Content in Blessings
Be content to simply fulfill the duties with which God has blessed you.
Of Many Chances
God is bigger than missed opportunities – God gives second chances, third chances, as many as needed. May you be blessed to take a chance and succeed.
{prayers}
God in Mine
God to unfold me, God to surround me, God in my speaking, God in my thinking, God in my sleeping, God in my waking, guided my watching, God in my hoping, God in my life, guided my lips, God in my hands, God in my heart, God in my working, God in my slumber, God in mine ever-living soul, God in mine eternity.
Celtic oral tradition
Happiness In
I envision happiness in the air. It’s swirling all around me and looking for a point of entry. Dear God, You have the key. I am ready to walk through an open door. Let it in, oh joy! May happiness be in me.
Taught to Listen
I pray noisily for this and that, without my heart to guide me. But oh! When I manage to turn off the clamor in my head, and silence fills me, it’s then I hear God’s whisper. Praise to my Maker, who teaches me to listen.
Holy Representation
Made in Your image? Yes, I am. Forgive me when I don’t represent You properly. I am embarrassed and ashamed of the way I acted. Fortify my conviction to walk in Your way. Amen
Not Merely to See
May I learn to liberate the light from the dull and routine way in which I see the world. Help me to regard, not merely to see. To linger not merely to walk.
Karyn Kedar
{bible affirmations}
Galatians 6:10
Therefore, whenever we have the opportunity, we should do good to everyone—especially to those in the family of faith.
Psalm 143:8
Teach me the way I should go, for I lift up my soul to You.
Psalm 107:29
God stills the storm to a whisper, the waves of the sea are hushed.
Isaiah 40:31
But those whose hope is in God will renew their strength. They will soar on wings like eagles; they will run and not grow weary, they will walk and not be faint.
Proverbs: 16:32
Better to be patient than powerful; better to have self-control than to conquer a city.
{videos, stories, features}
Story: The Homely Fisherman
Video: The RichB – Testimonial
Feature: Two Unlikely Business Partners Start a Barber College
Music Video: Holy Ground, Craig Taubman and Body Traffic
Video Feature: Dads on Duty
Feature: Happiness Quotes