Morning Briefings

On a particularly difficult day a nurse prayed: ‘O God, where are you? Why don’t you send help?’ ‘I did,’ God replied, ‘I sent you. And as long as it takes, I will be with you whenever and wherever you honor human life.’

– Fr. James Krings
Living Faith

There’s some things that I regret, some words I wish had gone unsaid, some starts that had some better endings. Been some bad times I’ve been through, damage I cannot undo. Some things I wish I could do all over again. Some pages turned, some bridges burned but there were lessons learned.

– Carrie Underwood
Lessons Learned

All hard work brings a profit, but mere talk leads only to poverty.

– Proverbs 14:23 as referenced in
God’s Words for Life

My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?

– Psalm 22:1

Don’t pray for miracles. Pray for powers equal to your tasks, and you will be the miracle.

– Pastor Robert Fehlman

Trees look strong compared with wild reeds. But when the storm comes, the trees are uprooted, whereas the wild reeds, while moved back and forth remain rooted and stand up again after the storm has calmed down. Flexibility is a great virtue.

– Henri J.M. Nouwen
Bread for the Journey

The rain fell, the floods came, and the winds blew and beat on that house, but it did not fall, because it had been founded on rock.

– Matthew 7:25

When you are up against a step, you cannot see where the next step is leading. Sometimes opportunity is like staring at the knees of a giraffe.

– Laurie Beth Jones
Jesus, CEO

Now journey forth!

– Exodus 14:15

An iron sharpens iron, so one man sharpens another.

– Proverbs 27:17