Morning Briefings

From the fullness of His grace, we have all received one blessing after another.

– John 1:16

Besides the earth, man’s principle resource is man himself. His intelligence enables him to discover the earth’s productive potential and the many different ways in which needs can be satisfied.

– Pope John Paul II

Enter the gates with thanksgiving and his courts with praise; give thanks to him and praise his name. For the Lord is good and his love endures forever; his faithfulness continues through all generations.

– Psalm 100:4-5

The table is where we mark milestones, divulge dreams, bury hatchets, make deals, give thanks, plan vacations and tell jokes. It’s also where children learn the lessons that families teach: manners, cooperation, communication, self-control, values. It’s where we make up and make merry. It’s where we live, between the lines.

– Doris Christopher
Come to the Table: A Celebration of Family Life

Do you not say, ‘four more months and then the harvest?’ I tell you, open your eyes and look at the fields! They are ripe and ready for the harvest.

– John 4:35

Your playing small doesn’t serve the world. There’s nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won’t feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine. We are born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It’s not just in some of us, it’s in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same.

– Marianne Williamson
A Return to Love

Your gift to God is simple: Accept His gifts. Utilize His gifts to become the success He designed you to be.

– Larry Julian
God is my Success

As it is written: Whoever has much did not have more, and whoever had little did not have less.

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A reading from the second Letter of Saint Paul to the Corinthians

Not that others should have relief while you are burdened, but that as a matter of equality your abundance at the present time should supply their needs, so that their abundance may also supply your needs.

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A reading from the second Letter of Saint Paul to the Corinthians

Brothers and sisters: As you excel in every respect, in faith, discourse, knowledge, all earnestness, and in the love we have for you, may you excel in this gracious act also. For you know the gracious act of our Lord Jesus Christ, that though he was rich, for your sake he became poor, so that by his poverty you might become rich.

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A reading from the second Letter of Saint Paul to the Corinthians