Affirmations

Photo: Mr. Dickie in Silver Spring, MD

• I pray I'll be calm in the storm
• I pray I'll kept cool in the fray
• I pray I'll perform in the crunch
• I pray I'll stay strong through the day
• I pray I'll have courage to choose
• I pray I'll use faith to decide
• I pray I'll make right what is wrong
• I pray I'll let love be my guide
• I pray I'll get out of myself
• I pray I'll stand bravely and tall
• I pray I'll speak truth and not lies
• I pray I'll be generous to all.

(Celia Strauss, in Prayers For Every Need, p84)
31 July 2013

Friends

Lord, my god, I thank You for the friends You have blessed me with throughout the years. Those who have held me up in prayer when I have been in deep depression and could not stand alone. Their prayers lifted me up while You did the work that was needed in my heart.
(Billie Gerlach, in Prayers For Every Need, p. 157)
30 July 2013

Make Me A Blessing

Make me a blessing to those around me.

29 July 2013

Night Is Drawing Nigh

Night is drawing nigh

For all that has been -- Thanks!

For all that shall be -- Yes!

(Dag Hammarskjold, in Promises Of Joy, p. 163)

28 July 2013

Aging

Don't let me be so afraid of aging.

(Marjorie Holmes, in Prayers For Every Need, p. 100)

27 July 2013

Quiet Mind

Photo: Blackwater Falls, WV by Mr. Dickie

The most powerful prayer, one well nigh omnipotent, and the worthiest work of all is the outcome of a quiet mind. (Meister Eckhart in The Little Book of Prayers, by David Schiller) 26 July 2013

The Beam Of Your Light

Come, Holy Spirit,

And send out from heaven

The beam of your light.

(Archbishop Stephen Langton, "The Golden Sequence," Whitsunday)

(The Little Book of Prayers, by David Schiller, p. 200)

25 July 2013