Week Ending June 20, 2025
{quotes}
I am careful not to confuse excellence with perfection. Excellence, I can reach for; perfection is God’s business.
Michael J. Fox
The smallest act of kindness is worth more than the grandest intention.
Oscar Wilde
Growth in a relationship isn’t about avoiding problems—it’s about facing them together.
Ashley Veitz
I love how summer just wraps its arms around you like a warm blanket.
Kellie Elmore
You will come to know that what appears to be a sacrifice will prove instead to be the greatest investment that you will ever make.
Gordon B. Hinckley
{blessings}
Quirky Friendship
May God bless you with the precious gift of friendship. The kind of friend who gets you, accepts you as you are, and appreciates your quirks.
Do Your Best
May you be blessed to do your best, and God will do the rest.
Your Core Within
Deep inside, at your very core, God has placed a beautiful soul, and it is yours alone. May you be blessed to feel God’s gift within.
God is Close
God is closer than your next breath. May you be blessed to find the Divine inside.
Finish What You Started
Leave nothing unfinished. God has blessed you with the ability to complete what you started. Today is your day.
{prayers}
Purity and Joy
Dear God, bring back purity, innocence, simplicity, and joy. Wash away our sins and grace us with new beginnings.
Stand Before God
Dear God, I stand before You to offer all that I am and all I can do for You in service to humanity. May my way be gentle, effective, and kind. Blessed are You who gives me purpose.
Big Problems
I have problems. Difficult problems, LARGER than life, seemingly impossible to solve, with terrifying consequences. Yet, with certainty and faith comes truth. No problem is greater than You, God Almighty.
Summer Days
Dear God, thank You for the gift of Your warm breezes, blue skies, sunshine, and the joy that comes with a summer day.
God’s Masterpiece
Dear God. Give me the courage to be myself rather than what others expect me to be. Shower me with confidence and assure me my instincts are right. Help me bring together the pieces that make me unique, and I will be Your masterpiece.
{bible}
The desert and the parched land will be glad. The wilderness will rejoice, and it will blossom.
Isaiah 35:1
Spirit produces love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, humility, and self-control.
Galatians 5:22-23
Her children arise and call her blessed, her husband also, and he praises her: “Many women do noble things, but you surpass them all.”
Proverbs 31:28-29
You, my brothers and sisters, were called to be free. But do not use your freedom to indulge the flesh, rather, serve one another humbly in love.
Galatians 5:13
Do not consider appearance or size. The Lord does not look at the things people look at. People look at the outward appearance, but the Lord looks at the heart.
1 Samuel 16:7
{features, videos, stories}
Feature: How to Keep Children Off Smartphones
Parable: Friend of Mine
Holy Humor: Chicken and the Pig
Video: Juneteenth Henry Louis Gates Jr.
Story: Short Film: The Attendant