Week Ending Friday November 4, 2022
{quotes}
Some people are born for Halloween, and some are just counting the days until Christmas.
Stephen Graham Jones
True holiness isn’t cold and deadening – it’s warm and inviting. It’s irresistible. Those who think otherwise have never seen it, but only its caricatures.
Nancy Leigh DeMoss
Success is getting what you want, happiness is wanting what you get.
Dale Carnegie
Unless we form the habit of going to the Bible in bright moments as well as in trouble, we cannot fully respond to its consolations because we lack equilibrium between light and darkness.
Helen Keller
Be the type of love you deserve, if for no other reason but to show us all how it’s done.
Cleo Wade
{blessings}
Halloween Humor
When black cats, ghosts, and witches roam the neighborhood, may God bless you to get where you’re going safely.
Offer Grace
Offer your grace to someone struggling and God will bless you abundantly.
Garden of Eden
God gave the Garden of Eden to Adam and Eve so humans could know pleasure. May you be blessed to live with pleasure in your own Garden of Eden.
Stalling
Stop stalling. Do today what you want to put off until tomorrow. May you be blessed with the tremendous feeling of satisfaction from a job done.
Different Journey
May you be blessed to remember that everyone is at a different place in their journey. Be kind.
{prayers}
Prayer for Halloween
Dear God, We turn to You on this day of festive celebration, asking You to keep our children safe. Be a shield of protection, light their way, preserve their innocence, and shower them with treats for the soul.
Letting God In
Dear God, I search for inner peace, a restful soul, and a heart without turmoil. I pray for Your calm to envelop me. I pray for a way to get out of my own way and let You in.
Holy Father
Holy Father, hold me in Your strong arms and gently stroke my hair, kiss my brow, stand back and look at me in Your loving way, so that I may know I am adored, valued, and blessed by Your love.
Struggle is Real
My struggles are real, my reaction is measured, and I rise to the occasion. Thank You dear God for being with me, reminding me, urging me to meet the challenge head-on, with strength and confidence in myself, and with gratitude to You.
Not Hidden, But Revealed
When I hide from You I am a coward. When I reveal myself to You I am bold and brave. I am here now, stripped of disguise, open, vulnerable with hat in hand, asking Your forgiveness, waiting patiently for Your grace. I am ready.
{bible affirmations}
1 Peter 5:8
Be alert and of a sober mind. Your enemy the devil prowls around like a roaring lion looking for someone to devour.
Matthew 6:6
When you pray go into a private place. Don’t try to inform God, instead involve God and the Holy One will answer your prayers.
Ecclesiastes 3:11
God has made everything beautiful for its own time. Eternity is planted in every human heart. Yet, people cannot see the whole scope of God’s work from beginning to end.
Isaiah 5:20
Woe to those who call evil good and good evil. Who put darkness for light and light for darkness. Who put bitter for sweet and sweet for bitter.
Romans 13:12
The night is nearly over; the day is almost here. So let us put aside the deeds of darkness and put on the armor of light.
{stories, features, videos}
Story: ‘Twas the Night Before Halloween
Feature: The Angel That Turned Halloween into Christmas
Blog: These are the Days, Rachael Jones
Video: Bus Stop Dog + WAPO article
Feature: The Boy Who Started a Food Shelter in His Shed
Video: Gravestone Baker