Week Ending Friday, April 5, 2024
{quotes}
Fools
Our wisdom comes from our experience, and our experience comes from our foolishness.
Sacha Guilty
Your Body
Your body is not a temple. It’s an amusement park. Enjoy the ride.
Anthony Bourdain
Consensus
A genuine leader is not a searcher for consensus but a molder of consensus.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Humility for Life
Life is a long lesson in humility.
M. Barrie
Lost
It feels good to be lost in the right direction. Explore. Learn. Experience. But don’t ever turn back.
Steve Maraboli
{blessings}
Return
When you lose your way, may you be blessed to return to the things that inspire you.
Hello!
May God bless you with a fresh hello and a new adventure.
Helping, Giving, Loving
May you be blessed to help when you can, give what you can, and love who you can.
Clear and Confirmed
It is not in God’s plan when it comes to you with hesitation, frustration, and confusion. May your next best thing come to you with the blessing of a clear message and confirmation.
Graceful Acceptance
Accept more. Don’t fight the givers. Be gracious, for they are a blessing to you.
{prayers}
Work of this Day
Oh God, I offer to you the work of this day. Enlighten me to know how best to serve. Help me to hear the cries of others and respond. Give me the words to comfort and inspire hope. Help me to be kind in all circumstances. Allow me to be a vessel of your Light. Amen
Marie Geralis Bates, author of Out of Wooden Pews
Loving-Kindness
O Lord, I hear Your call. You blessed me with the ability to serve. I shall not wallow in my petty desires. I will take stock of all I have to give and find the right ways to spread Your message of loving-kindness.
Meant to Be
God created me. I came to life to be just who I was meant to be and to do exactly what I was meant to do. It’s a wonder-filled world, and I appreciate the trust God showed in me when He placed my soul in this body. I am provided for by the one and only perfect God.
Prayer Shift
The moments may be brief, but they exist. In community. In prayers. In phone calls and letters. In wisdom. In pockets of peace. Our prayers shift things. Our presence shifts things. When it would be easier to stay with our noses pointed down at our phones, our showing up shifts things. And, even amid our distractions, we can invite God’s presence to surround us. We can ask him to meet us in the ordinary, in the chaos.
Hannah Brencher
Let Me Not
Dear God, Let me not wander in vain or labor in vain. Let me not fly into anger or stray off the path of goodness. Let me not mingle with the prejudiced or leave the company of the righteous. Let me not put off for tomorrow that which I can do today.
{bible affirmations}
Because of Your unfailing love, I can enter Your house and worship at Your Temple with deepest awe.
Psalms 5:7
The Lord directs the steps of the godly. He delights in every detail of their lives.
Psalms 37:23
The great dragon was hurled down—that ancient serpent called the devil, or Satan, who leads the whole world astray. He was hurled to the earth, and his angels with him.
Revelation 12:9
The kingdom of heaven is like a net that was let down into the lake and caught all kinds of fish.
Matthew 13:47
The Word is right here and now – as near as the tongue in your mouth, as near as the heart in your chest. Just do it!
Deuteronomy 30:14-20
{stories, features, videos}
Story: Robin Redbreast
Feature: Beautiful News Daily: Quality of Life
Holy Humor: The Trouble With Sons
Film Story: Ollie Sadiel Gomez
Feature: Deathbed Visions
Music Video: Hold on to Me Lauren Daigle