Week Ending Friday, October 14, 2022
{quotes}
Four things to learn in life: To think clearly without hurry or confusion, to love everybody sincerely, to act in everything with the highest motives, and to trust God unhesitatingly.
Helen Keller
When an egg breaks from outside force, life ends. But when an egg breaks from inside force life begins. All great things come from within.
Ralph Smart
The righteousness that God loves is not some set of arbitrary rules laid down to trap the unsuspecting or weed out the weak. The righteousness he loves reflects his own perfect commitment to what’s right.
Matthew McCullough
There isn’t a single motivation, thought, act, or word that has slipped out of your being and escaped the full, undivided attention of God.
Bill Hybels
Life is mostly froth and bubble, two things stand like stone. Kindness in another’s trouble, courage in your own.
Adam Lindsay Gordon
{blessings}
Growing in Spirit
May God bless your intellectual and spiritual growth. As long as you are willing to change—you will continue to grow.
From the Heart
It’s hard to pray badly and there’s no need to fret over style points. A prayer speaks simply to God from the heart. May you be blessed with a rich and fulfilling prayer life that pleases you and pleases God.
Love of Your Life
If love wouldn’t, God didn’t. If it comes to love, God did it. May God bless you with the love of your life.
Work Well
May you be blessed with an appreciation for the job you have and may your efforts at work always be a blessing to those around you.
Grateful Gateway
The gateway to grace is gratitude. May God bless you with an always grateful heart.
{prayers}
Speaking Volumes
By praising You, dear God, I begin to reach inward. This inner life is marvelous, exciting, and fulfilling. When I pray to You, my heart speaks volumes and I am in awe of Your creation. Blessed are You, who brings forth my best self.
Transparency
Help me to be aware of my selfishness, but without undue shame or self-judgment. Let me keep surrendering myself until I am utterly transparent. Let my words be rooted in honesty and my thoughts be lost in Your light, Unnamable God, my essence, my origin, my lifeblood, my home.
Stephen Mitchell
Greatness of God
Not only do I see You, my God – I feel Your touch, I smell the sweetness of Your breath, and I am aware of being surrounded by Your holiness. Praise to the great You ever-present in the humble me.
Light and Guidance
I can’t know Your ways, but I can follow Your lead. Never let me lose sight of You. Take me by the hand if need be, and remind me I am not alone on this journey. Thank You, dear God, for Your light and divine guidance.
Melody of Prayer
First, I begin with words. And then, my words give rise to melody. Songs of praise leap from stunned lips and I am carried away in joyful prayer. May my every devotion rise up to meet You, O God, and may my prayer be music to Your ears.
{bible affirmations}
Titus 3:3–5
For we ourselves were once foolish, disobedient, led astray, slaves to various passions and pleasures, passing our days in malice and envy, hated by others and hating one another. But with the goodness and loving kindness of God, we found redemption. Not because of works done by us in righteousness, but because of God’s mercy.
Psalm 46:8
Come, see the glorious works of God. Come be with us.
1 Chronicles 16:31-34
Let the heavens rejoice, let the earth be glad. Let the sea roar, the fields and forest sing for joy, for God has come to rule the earth. Let them say among the nations, “The Lord reigns forever!”
Psalm 81:10
Express your need and I, Your God, will fulfill it.
Psalm 34:13
Keep my tongue from evil, and my lips from lies.
{stories, features, videos}
Story: Shirley & Rose
Feature: How to Remember Your Dreams
Music Video: Chosen Family Children’s Choir
Parable: Before I Came to Prison
Funny Video: When Mom and Dad are News Anchors
Feature: One Dad, 35 (and counting) Children