Week End Friday May 31, 2019
{quotes}
No response is a response, and it can be a powerful one.
Remember the soldiers who served our country so that we can enjoy freedom.
If God gave it to you, you are meant to use it.
Go with the flow on the stream of the unknowable. Enjoy the ride.
Don’t be so full of yourself that there is no room left for God.
Doubt your doubts instead of doubting your faith.
{blessings}
Heroes and Hard-Workers
May God bless the memories of heroes and hard-workers, of those we loved and those we lost, and may God bless you on this memorial day.
Forever of Plenty
There is the forever of plenty, and the never of enough. Which will be your narrative? May you be blessed to know eternal abundance.
Great in Your Own Way
God is expecting you to be great in your own way. May you be blessed to navigate the world with respect, to accomplish much, and to use your intelligence fully.
Divine Action
Are you waiting? Waiting for the perfect time. Waiting for the best possible situation. Waiting to meet exactly the right person. May you be blessed to live imperfectly. Start now. Toss aside your hesitation. Patience is a virtue, but action is Divine.
Make it Count
Blessed are you when you can give without keeping score and when you take you always make it count.
{prayers}
Somber Reflection
Dear God, Open my heart so that I may share the grief of the widow, the mother, the brothers, sisters, and children of those who dearly miss their loved ones who bravely fought for this country. Let me properly honor the memories of brave men and women who defended our country against its enemies. Remind me of the meaning of this day and let it not be lost to leisure and celebration. Bring me moments of somber reflection.
Preparing for Destiny
Help me prepare for a better life of love and peace, of comfort and healing. I am willing, I am able, I am ready to accept Your guidance. Praise to You, who leads me to my destiny.
Today I am Living
Today I am living. Now is now. Yesterday is done. Today I am living, tomorrow…only God knows.
Comfort of God’s Presence
Dear God, please intervene. Reunite my body with Your blessings, with joy and life and strength. Remind me what it is to be safe in my body. And when I cannot hear Your reminders, cradle me close and rock me, until the pain melts into the comfort of Your presence. amen
Yours
Lord give me Your strength for my weakness. Your wisdom for what I have yet to learn. Your drive for my procrastination. Your grace for my greed. Your love for my loneliness. Your generosity for my needs. Your peace for my discontent. I am ready to receive it.
{stories, features, video}
Story: God’s Good News
Feature: The Gut-Wrenching Effect of Remembrance and Loss on Memorial Day
Feature: Billionaire Alumnus Pays Off All Grads Student Debt + Video
Feature: What Flannery O’Connor Taught me About Chronic Illness
Feature: The Woman Who Fostered 52 Disabled Arab and Jewish Children
Video: How to Fix the Problems that Make You Unhappy and Live a Fulfilled Life
{bible affirmations}
2 Timothy 1:7
God gave me a spirit not of fear, but of power, love, and self-control.
Genesis 2:4-9
When asked for a light, God gave the heavens. When asked for water, God gave the seas. When asked for a flower, God made gardens. When asked for a friend, God made all of humanity.
Jeremiah 10:6
There is none like You, O God, You are great and great is Your name in might. “I am not the center of the universe. I am not the greatest. God is.”
2 Corinthians 3:17
The Lord is the Spirit; and where the Spirit of the Lord is present, there is freedom.
Isaiah 64:4
What no eye has seen, nor ear heard, or the human heart conceived what God has prepared for those who love Him.