Week Ending Friday, May 16, 2025
{quotes}
The test of faith is whether I can make space for difference. Can I recognize God’s image in someone who is not in my image, whose language, faith, ideal, are different from mine? If I cannot, then I have made God in my image instead of allowing Him to remake me in His.
Jonathan Sacks
Each morning sees some task begun, each evening sees it close; something attempted, something done, has earned a night’s repose.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Love is friendship on fire.
Susan Sontag
There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.
George Santayana
Courage is being scared to death but saddling up anyway.
John Wayne
{blessings}
Power of Words
May God bless you with the power of words. May you know the right things to say at just the right time to bring comfort and clarity to the people around you.
Clear Vision
God bless you with a clear vision to see your future, pursue it, and succeed.
No Gossip
May you be blessed to never know the sin of gossip.
Home Where God Resides
May you be blessed to find a home that’s not built with bricks and beams. A place where the windows look out upon your soul, and its foundation is kindness, love, and grace.
Remember
May God bless us with memories that work as they should. To remember with clarity the sweet and the good.
{prayers}
Lord, Take Me Higher
Dear God, I am ready, willing, and able to take my life to the next level. To be better, to do more, to love unselfishly. Lord, take me higher!
Be Humble
There’s a certain smugness that comes with satisfaction. It’s an unintentional measurement of their happiness vs. mine. And when I win, I lose. Dear God, I value humility and find it difficult to achieve. Help me to be humble.
Sweet Love
Dear God, let me taste the sweet nectar of love and affection. Help me know friendship that fills me and thrills me. I have faith, I have hope, please grace me with the love of another.
Filled by God
Precious God, fill and refill me with a gentle love, a heart covered in kindness, and lips that speak softly of Your eminence.
Love Every Day
God, thank You for loving me on the days I don’t love myself. Strengthen me from the inside out so I will not again allow judgment and disappointment to seep through my skin. Blessed are You who sees to it that my soul remains pure.
{bible}
The fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, forbearance, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control.
Galatians 5:22-23
A soft answer turns away wrath, but a harsh word stirs up anger.
Proverbs 15:1
Oh, that I had wings like a dove! I would fly away and be at rest.
Psalm 55:6
I will instruct you and teach you in the way you should go. I will counsel you with my loving eye upon you.
Psalm 32:8
Whether you turn to the right or to the left, your ears will hear God’s voice saying, “This is the way, walk in it.”
Isaiah 30:21
{features, stories, videos}
Blog: Trust the Process Rachael Jones
Holy Humor: Bible Mailer
Video: A Place Among the Clouds
Parable: Racing to God’s Finish
Worship Music: Psalm 30:11/Dancing Queen Angela Buchwald