Week Ending Friday March 25, 2022
{quotes}
Never look down on anybody unless you’re helping them up.
Jesse Jackson
Whatever makes you uncomfortable is your biggest opportunity for growth.
Bryant McGill
Prayer can be positive, or prayer can be negative. It is negative when it’s based in worry.
Christopher Chenowith
Pray as though everything depended on God. Work as though everything depended on you.
St. Augustine
Good order is the foundation of all things.
Edmund Burke
{blessings}
Weight-less
What weighs heavy on your mind weighs a lot less in God’s hands. May you be blessed to give it to God, and receive relief from worry.
Organized Home
There’s nothing more calming than an organized home. May you be blessed with a home that brings you joy, tranquility, and comfort.
Do-Gooder
What you feel in your heart is admirable. Yet, God cares more about what you do with your hands – how you use them for good. May you be blessed to be a do-gooder and not only a feel-gooder.
Tough it Out
Life is tough sweetie, but so are you. May God bless you with strength, confidence, and the will to make it through.
Message in a Bottle
Prayer without faith is like tossing a message in a bottle, throwing it out to sea, and hoping someone finds it. May God bless you to toss your doubts aside instead. Pray with confidence, be firm in your faith, with love for God in your heart.
{prayers}
Best Friend Prayer
My best friend is a gift from God. Answering my call when faith fails and doubt prevails. There to lift me when I am shaken up and beaten down. Reminding me to be grateful when gratitude goes missing. Please God, protect and empower my dear friend, most deserving soul.
Prayer of St. Ignatius
Take, Lord, receive all my liberty, my memory, my understanding, my whole will, all that I have, and all that I possess. You gave it all to me, Lord; I give it all back to you. Do with it as you will, according to your good pleasure.
Faith in God
Bless me, oh God, on this day, with peace that surpasses expectations, joy derived from things beyond material possessions, love that knows no boundaries, and strength that emanates from faith in You.
I am Present
Dear God, Help me stay in the present tense today. Keep the past where it belongs. Even the future can be a stumbling block if it slows down my now. Allow me to be okay, right where I am, even as I strive to be better. Just once, filter out the static of what was, so I can be in this moment.
Whole Again
Dear God. Thank you for this new day. I was born and I am reborn each morning. Counting the days, and making the days count. Praise God, in a world where brokenness can make me whole.
{bible affirmations}
Isaiah 41:10
I am not afraid, for I know You are with me. I won’t be discouraged, for You are my God. You will strengthen me and help me. You will hold me up with Your victorious right hand.
1 Corinthians 15:10
But by the grace of God, I am what I am, and His grace toward me was not in vain. On the contrary, I worked harder than any of them, yet not I, but the grace of God that was with me.
Song of Songs 2:11-12
See! The winter is past; the rains are over and gone. Flowers appear on the earth; the season of singing has come, the cooing of doves is heard in our land.
Isaiah 26:7
But for those who are righteous, the way is not steep and rough. You are a God who does what is right, and you smooth out the path ahead of them.
James 2:16
Dear friends, do you think you’ll get anywhere in this world if you learn all the right words but never do anything? Does merely talking about faith indicate that a person really has it? For instance, you come upon an old friend dressed in rags and half-starved and say, “Good morning, friend! Be clothed in God! Be filled with the Holy Spirit!” and walk off without providing so much as a coat or a cup of soup—where does that get you? Isn’t it obvious that God-talk without God-acts is outrageous nonsense?
{stories, videos, features}
poetry: Spring Prayer
Ralph Waldo Emerson
feature: People of all Faiths Flocking to Ukranian Churches
video: Eagle Learns to Fly Again
poetry: Before I Pray
video: Dog Sweater Miracle
graphic art: There is a way up toward the better world we have seen in our dreams, but these stairs won’t build themselves.
Storypeople