Morning Briefings

Every cancer is a journey. You never know where the journey will take you, where you’ll go. You’ll have moments of fear, hope, pain, and if you’re lucky, joy. What’s important is to go with it–wherever it goes. A great many things will be outside your control. You have to accept that you’re not entirely the driver.

– Joe Eszterhas
Crossbearer

As uncomfortable as our life might be, as painful or even desperate at times, the life we’re living is the life we know, and we cling to the old rather than try something new. It’s unbelievable how tenaciously we cling to what we’ve prayed to be released from.

– Marianne Williamson
A Return to Love

Forgive me Lord. Please, those years when I ignored you. Forgive them Lord. Those that feel they can’t afford you.

– George Harrison
Hear Me Lord

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

‘I Would Die 4 U’ was the fourth single in the U.S. from Prince and the Revolution’s 1984 album, Purple Rain. The up-tempo dance song is thought by some to be sung from the point of view of Jesus. In concerts, Prince changes the lyrics from ‘I’m your messiah’ to ‘He’s your messiah,’ pointing to the sky as he sings the line.

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Wikipedia

At its core the question of how to transform suffering into happiness is still a religious one. Ultimately, it is God alone who has the power to bring good out of bad.

– Anthony DeStefano
Ten Prayers God Always Says Yes To

I am sending you like sheep in the midst of wolves; so be shrewd as serpents and simple as doves.

– Matthew 10:16